AS STRAIGHT AS A DIE
AS TRUE AS STEEL

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".