| Heber Slatter | |
| Fullname: | Heber Percy Slatter[1] |
| Birth Date: | 1887 |
| Birth Place: | Earley, England[2] |
| Death Place: | near Foncquevillers, France |
| Height: | 5ft 5in |
| Position: | Left half |
| Years1: | 1909–1912 |
| Clubs1: | Reading |
| Caps1: | 35 |
| Goals1: | 0 |
| Years2: | 1910–1914 |
| Clubs2: | Oxford City |
| Caps2: | 72 |
| Goals2: | 7 |
Heber Percy Slatter (1887 – 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.[3]
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.[4] 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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