LIEUTENANT ROBERT GORDON SLADE
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
18TH APRIL 1918 AGE 33
BURIED: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM
Fidus et audax, faithful and brave, is the motto of the Slade family of Maunsel House, Somerset. Robert Gordon Slade's father was a manufacturing confectioner in Harrogate. It looks as though this could have been a family business and from the 1911 census that two of the sons, Arthur and Leonard, were working in it. However, a gravestone in Harlow Hill Cemetery, Harrogate gives the later history of the family. Arthur died in 1911 and Leonard whilst serving with the Royal Flying Corps in 1915. Robert Gordon Slade, serving with the Royal Field Artillery, died of wounds in hospital in Belgium on 18 April 1918, and the youngest daughter, "dear Marjorie", in 1924.