Name
John Slade
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/09/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5470
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY
Plot IV, Row F, Grave 6.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial Canberra
Pre War
Son of William Robert and Adelaide Henrietta (nee HONIG) SLADE of Watford.
His parents married 27 June 1894 at St Matthias, Richmond, Surrey. William died 1937 in Watford aged 69, and was buried 6 October in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
John was born 12 April 1895 in Richmond, and baptised 19 May 1895 at St Matthias, Richmond. He attended Queen’s Road Boys’ School, Wimbledon, Surrey, from 20 April to 3 July 1903.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Wimbledon, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, possibly a farm labourer aged 15, he lived in Newcastle-in-Emlyn, Cardiganshire.
Wartime Service
He attested in Brisbane, Queensland, 4 October 1915: a labourer aged 20, 5’3″ tall, C of E; next-of-kin his father of Watford.
He embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, 20 April 1916 aboard SS Hawkes Bay.
He was wounded and missing in Belgium 20 September 1917, and assumed killed in action.
He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals.
Additional Information
There is an article about John in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 4 May 1918.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
