DRUMMOYNE - SCOTLAND
Private James SLATER 2980
Born: Scalloway, Shetland Islands, Scotland Enlisted: 18-9-1916, R.A. Showgrounds, Moore Park, N.S.W. 59th Battalion Australian Infantry Killed in Action: 11-5-1917, France aged 29years Resting: Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, Nord Pas de Calais, France Son of Thomas and Cecilia R. Slater, of Ivy Cottage, Lower Sound, Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland. Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 168 The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, N.S.W.) 25-6-1917 SLATER. —Killed in action. France, 11th May, 1917, Private James Slater, late of Commonwealth Naval Dockyard, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, and of Shetland Islands, Scotland, Unto the last, whate'er that last may be-- Or day or night Silence or psalm; defeat or victory -- Endure and fight. Inserted with deep regret, by officers Pay and Time Office Staff, Cockatoo Island Dockyard. |