Notes
The Roll lists his address as Gunthorpe.
(CWGC records that Lance Corporal Herbert Percy Slater, regimental number 23742, died aged 25 on 11/12/1916 serving in 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is buried in grave IV.E.27 at Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension in France. They record him as the son of Matthew and Beatrice Ellen Slater of Gunthorpe, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records Herbert as a native of Gunthorpe who enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died of wounds, and that his mother Beatrice was his legatee.
Herbert's birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1891. He was baptised at Paston All Saints' Church on 7/5/1893 as the son of Matthew and Beatrice Slater of Gunthorpe. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents in All Saints' Parish Paston, Gunthorpe. By the 1911 census his parents were living in Whaplode Drove, Wisbech. Herbert had by then left home- whereabouts untraced).