SLINGER,i thought i recognised that name,gerry,if your related to elizabeth alice slinger,then your uncles must be Lt william slinger of the east lancs regt,who was killed by shellfire while taking a work party up to the front lines on 23-7-1917,his brother george nicholas slinger had been killed by a sniper the previous year [28-11-16],i think the germans carved something on his grave marker about him being a gallant officer or something similar,there was a younger brother called tempest who was private 15622 RAMC,they were the sons of george nicholas +ellen augusta slinger,their mum also died during the war on 28-2-15,their father was the younger brother of elizabeth alice slinger,i think it was her husband william nutter who paid for major slingers education,enabling him to take up practice as a solicitor,major slinger had a pretty tough time with regards to his family because he lost his daughter when she was a baby,he remarried after the war and had 3 more children to his new wife esther,but sadly he died 5 years later on 16-12-1923 of pneumonia,tempest his only surviving son,went into practice with his father after the war,is he your uncle gerry
mack
