Army Number: 265987 formerly 3425

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Harry and Mary A. Slater, of 27, Oliver Street, Nottingham. Went to France on 28th June 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 23, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France. Plot 2, Row D, Grave 2.