NARRACOTT Ronald William
Ronald William NARRACOTT
Lieutenant, Royal Engineers
Killed in Action on 10th August 1915
Remembered on Panel 9, YPRES (MENIN GATE), MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING, Ieper, Belgium.
Before joining the army, Ronald was a Mining Engineer, working for The British Metal Extraction Company, Llansamlet. In 1912, he and his family were living at ‘Gainsboro’, Mayals, Clyne Common
Cambrian Daily Leader 18th Aug 1915
Ronald left a Widow, Agnes Constance NARRACOT and two children, William Samuel, born 2 July 1906 , who married in 1963 & died in 1982. Hilda Chedomile Narracot, born 13 December 1910 who married, had three sons and died in 1981.
1911 census shows him married but alone in London, Shepherds Bush, Consulting Mining Engineer
The 1891 Census records that he was the son of Samuel aged 33 (born in Devon, buyer in china & glass) & Katherine aged 35 and the family lived at Ealing, London. Ronald, b. Jun qtr 1883, Fulham, was the eldest of three sons
Grandmother: Emily Bowen, age 66, was a retired Jeweller.
Thier address was given as: Villa Alberte, La Combaz, Montana Vermala, Suisse Valais
His widow later married an Italian and died in 1969 in Genoa, Liguria
The Medal Roll Index records that he held the rank of Captain, who first served in France from 12 December 1914, until he was listed Missing
Researcher: Alun Bevan
Ronald is one of six Oystermouth Men commemorated on this Memorial
Every Evening the Last Post is sounded
at the Menin Gate Memorial, at 8pm
Every evening since 1928, the police halt the traffic passing under the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, to allow the buglers to play their simple but moving tribute to the memory of the soldiers who fought and died here so many years ago.
The local people are proud of this simple but moving tribute to the courage and self-sacrifice of those who fell in defence of their town. (Some evenings, particularly in summer, there can be large crowds of visitors).
This memorial now bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men whose graves are not known