Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 16th August 1918
SLATER A. L.
Alfred Lewis Slater
Private 28583
1st Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
Alfred Lewis Slater died on 14th August 1917, and was remembered on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born c1896 at Keighley, Yorkshire, to parents Smith & Annie Slater, and was their only son. Smith Slater was recorded on the 1901 census in Sutton as an Engineer Die Turner, and both he and his wife were natives of Yorkshire. Smith Slater had married Annie Elizabeth Pullan at Keighley in 1890. The family later resided on Bathwood Drive, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 16th August 1918
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – King's Own Scottish Borderers’
SLATER Alfred. Born Keighley, Yorks, enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts). 1st Bn., King's Own Scottish Borderers. Private 28583, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 14th August 1917. Formerly 40401 South Staffordshires.
Research by Heather Faulkes
