Born: 1896, Bingley
Died: 13 April 1918
Buried: St Venant-Robecq Road British Cemetery, Robecq
Address: 29 Bradford Road, Shipley
Parents: Walter & Kate, nee Gelder
Spouse:
Siblings: George, Philip
Occupation: Barclays Bank, Bradford
Organisations/clubs:
Military
Rank: Sec-Lieut
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour: St Paul’s, Shipley; St Peter’s, Shipley
Children:
Regiment: Royal Warwickshire
Walter Gordon Slicer
Second Lieutenant Walter Gordon Slicer, aged 22 years, who was killed in
action on 13th April, was the son of Mrs Slicer of 29 Bradford Road,
Shipley, and of the late Mr Walter Slicer, wine and spirit merchant, of
Bingley, a prominent Yorkshire Freemason.
Employed at Barclay’s Bank, Bradford, Sec-Lieut Slicer enlisted in
September 1915 in the Queen’s Own Yorkshire Dragoons and later trained
at Oxford for a commission, being gazetted to the Royal Warwickshire
Regt, with which unit he was serving when he met his death.
He was in an advanced post and, being a first class shot, was acting as a
sniper when he was shot through the head by an enemy sniper and killed
instantly.
His commanding officer writes that he was “a fine officer and his conduct
throughout worthy of the highest esteem.”
Shipley Times & Express 26 April 1918
