Air Marshal H Slatter
Horatio Slatter
- Rank
- Air Marshal
- Honours
- KBE CB OBE DSC and Bar DFC
- School
- Selborne College, Dale College
- Born
- 1894
- Fate
- Survived the war. Died 1961
- In the book
- Pages 29, 94, 166
From the book
Links of Long Standing
Air Marshal Sir Horatio Slatter KBE CB OBE DSC and Bar DFC was educated at Dale and Selborne College in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. A civil engineer, his military career started as a “Dispatch Rider” in 1914. An Air Vice- Marshal by 1942 and knighted that year, Slatter was Commander-in-Chief of Coastal Command at the end of the war. He retired in 1949 and died in 1961 at the age of 67.
The Dreaded Telegram
The second, also a flying accident 3 casualty, St Andrews College educated 19-year-old Keith Bartram Chiazzari, commissioned as an “acting Pilot Officer on probation” in April 1939, possibly influenced by his uncle, First World War Veteran Air Commodore Leonard Slatter. His parents in Kwazulu-Natal were devastated by the September 15th “Regret to inform you...” telegram advising their son had lost his life.