LIEUTENANT, ACTING CAPTAIN RALPH WILLIAM HOMAN
EAST KENT REGIMENT (THE BUFFS)
11TH AUGUST 1915 AGE 23
BURIED: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM
After his death Ralph Homan's Major wrote to his parents to say, "I have lost not only one of my best Officers, but one of my best friends. He was straight as a die and as true as steel." One of Captain Homan's privates writing to a friend was rather more prosaic though no less heartfelt: "He was a very brave chap, what the boys call a 'Trump'." Captain Homan was injured on 10 August in the recapture of the trenches at Hooge. He died the next day of a "shrapnel wound in the head".