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Dear Editor,

Hello there, I live in Australia although originally lived in the UK, and I'm trying to track down friends and family from the Cheriton area.

My husband Robert Slater from Cheriton recently died.

As in most marriages one listens, keep photos...and letters, none from UK unfortunately, but some of those very necessary details are missing and proving stumbling blocks to making sense of something to leave for daughter and grandson as they have no other relatives in Australia.

I am very interested in the Fred Slater Band...as my late husband's father was a Frederick Slater married to Nellie (nee Atkins) of Cheriton....and wonder if this could be a grand-son!

All of my husband's brothers were in the services, Charlie served in the Army, John was a Navy diver and my late husband Robert was in the RAF during the Second World War. There was a best friend Arthur Nokes who married a local girl but they went back to Midlands later. I do have baptismal from All Souls and service records of course.

If you have useful suggestions or contacts they would be very very much appreciated. I'm just hoping for something to crop up.

Many thanks

O. Rose-Slater

Editor's note:- If you have any information, please email us and we will forward replies to Mrs Slater