Major Montagu Maule Slade


Montagu Maule Slade was born on 16 Jan 1849. He was the son of Lt-General Marcus John Slade and Charlotte Ramsay. He joined the 10th as a sub lieutenant on 15 Feb 1868, lieutenant 28 Oct 1871, captain 23 Jan 1878, major 28 April 1882. He was killed at the battle of El Teb in the Sudan on 29 Feb 1884. He commanded a squadron in the battle, and was in the process of wheeling them round from the flank. Arabs attacked from all sides and he was killed. In the evening parties went out to search for the bodies. Major Slade’s brother, a captain in the Royal Artillery attached to the Egyptian Army, accompanied the search parties and found his brother whose body was pierced with seven spear wounds and his horse ‘hamstrung to the bone’. A memorial tablet of marble surrounded by a mosaic border of Venetian glass was erected in All Saint’s Church, Aldershot in memory of all those in the regiment who lost their lives in the Sudan in 1884.


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