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The Bristol Grammar School website provides his service and death details and this biographical information: 'Son of Johanna Slade, widow, of 25 Collingwood Road, Redland. Younger brother of Arthur, Harman, Henry, William, and John O. Older brother of Frank Oscar [who is also listed on this memorial] and Herbert F. Frank Oscar also attended Bristol Grammar School, and gave his life during the War.
Slade was born on 12/07/1888, and attended the School from 1900-1904. He served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, with the Gloucestershire Regiment 4th Bn. attd. 8th Bn.. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, and the Military Cross. Slade sadly lost his life on 04/05/1918, as a result of the War.
Slade is buried in Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetery, Belgium, reference IV. D. 10.
Slade was awarded the Military Cross on 3rd June 1916, Gazette issue 29608, page 5577. He was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Service Order on the 22nd September 1916, Gazette issue 29760, page 9269: “For conspicuous gallantry during operations. He organised with great skill bombing attacks, in order to reach two companies which were isolated in a trench further north. On another occasion he was twice buried by shells in one night, but dug himself out and carried on as if nothing had happened.“
The school Chronicle variously reported on him as follows: [We] "…offer the very heart congratulations of the School and all connected with it to Captain and Temporary Major E.C. Slade, who has been in temporary command of his battalion, and has won the great distinction of the Military Cross." - July 1916. "Congratulations... to Temporary Major E.C. Slade, who has added to his Military Cross the further honour of the D.S.O." - December 1916. [He] "had a brilliant career in the Army. While Major in the 6th Gloucesters he acted for some time as Lieut.-Col. of his battalion, and gained the D.S.O. and M.C. He was killed in action of May 4th at the age of 29." - July 1918"'