Squadron Leader C. E. SLATER, M.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C. (1305635) plus [Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air ]
Was a Master Pilot before being commissioned 1955.
His enlistment service number shows he enlisted in Blackpool in 1940.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/...upplement/6141
He retired in 1977.
His flying career would have made a good book, had he been given permission to write it.