Heber Percy Slatter (1887 â 7 May 1918) was an English amateur footballer who played in the Southern League for Reading as a left half. He also played in the Isthmian League for Oxford City.
Slatter was born in Earley and grew up in Reading. He attended Christ's Hospital, and later worked as a tax collector for Reading Council. He was married with two children. In November 1915, during the second year of the First World War, Slatter enlisted as a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery. After being posted to the Western Front in 1916, he was promoted to corporal. He was wounded by shellfire at Foncquevillers on 3 May 1918 and died of wounds four days later. Slatter was buried in Couin New British Cemetery.
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