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Cause of Death: Severe head trauma/ vehicle accident
End of Watch: January 1, 1918
Date of Incident: December 31, 1917
Age: 22
Rank: Chauffer
Status: Career
Badge Number: N/A
Tour of Duty: Not available
Assignment: Chief's Chauffer
Final Alarm: 817 North Palmetto
Nature of Death: Chief Bishop’s Chauffer who collided with No. 7’s Motor Truck.

Chauffer Ratterree, Chief Bishop’s Chauffer, was involved in a collision with Engine  #7 during an emergency response with the Fire Chief to a house fire on the east side of town.  His car crashed through a display window at Joske’s.  Chauffer Ratterree was ejected from the car and suffered a fractured skull. Alive but unconscious, the injured chauffer was carried by two San Antonio Police Officers to a car and rushed to Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital where he died the day after the accident at 5:20 o’clock in the morning of Tuesday January 1, 1918, having never regained consciousness.  Chief of the Department William Bishop and Lt. Robert W. Kopplin were also killed in this tragic accident.

Chauffer Ratterree was survived by his mother.