The story
Name: R W SLATER
Rank: Lieutenant-Commander
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 836 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1944-06-28
Aircraft: Swordfish II LS 182
Place of death: Enagh
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 5, Panel 1
Family details: Son of Sir Ransford Slater GCMG, CBE and Lady Slater; husband of Katharine M Slater of Alderley Edge, Cheshire
Rank: Lieutenant-Commander
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 836 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1944-06-28
Aircraft: Swordfish II LS 182
Place of death: Enagh
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 5, Panel 1
Family details: Son of Sir Ransford Slater GCMG, CBE and Lady Slater; husband of Katharine M Slater of Alderley Edge, Cheshire
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