Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Harry Chamberlain a shoe trade clicker, born 1872 in Oadby, Leics., and his wife Dorothy, born 1874 in Oadby, Leics. Ralph was born in 1895 in Oadby, Leics., he had one sibling, a sister Doris, born 1899 in Oadby, Leics., in March 1901 the family home was at Church Street, Oadby, Leics. In April 1911 Ralph was employed as a hosiery office clerk and was residing in the family home at 23, Regent Street, Oadby, Leics., together with his parents and siblings, Doris and Winifred, born 1902 in Oadby, Leics. In the July, August, September quarter of 1917, Ralph married Constance Elliott in the Blaby, Leicestershire marriage registration district. In the April, May, June quarter of 1921, Ralph’s widow Constance married Samuel R. Matthews in the Blaby, Leicestershire marriage registration district.