BORN ST PANCRAS, LONDON, 06/07/1884. SON OF JOHN BENJAMIN SCHLATTER AND PRISCILLA WHITE. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HIS FATHER WAS GERMAN AND DIED IN 1896. THE FAMILY CHANGED THEIR SURNAME TO SLATER.
WILLIAM JOINED THE ARMY 21/09/1901. (Discharged from 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s, after 160 days in Service and of Good Conduct).
HE MARRIED IN HULL, JULY 1907. WIFE MABEL JARVIS (NEE OLSEN) & 5 CHILDREN, LIVING AT THIS ADDRESS. EX BUILDER’S LABOURER AND RECKITT’S WORKER. ENLISTED HULL, 11/12/1914. DIED OF GAS WOUNDS, 30/06/1917, AGED 32.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE RAMC MEMORIAL, AT WENLOCK BARRACKS, HULL. BURIED: Achiet-le-Grand, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
HIS FIVE CHILDREN WERE VIOLET MABEL (STEP DAUGHTER); JOHN WILLIAM; JESSIE; ALBERT BENJAMIN AND IVY, ALL BORN BETWEEN 1906-1917. AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 31/3 SHILLINGS ON 7 JAN 1918.
NOTE, HIS SON JOHN WILLIAM SLATER, DIED AT SEA DURING WW2, IN 1941.
HIS BROTHER, PTE, WALTER SLATER, ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT, DIED OF WOUNDS 06/06/1918, AGED 23.
