Leonard Slater (11 October 1875 − 14 September 1914) was an English cricketer and British Army officer.
[1] Slater spent some part of this life in the British Raj, where he played cricket for Peshawar and Northern Punjab, at a time when neither team had first-class status.
[2] Returning to England, he played a single Minor Counties Championship match for Devon against Glamorgan.
The younger son John would later lead a distinguished military career and would be credited with forming the first Army commando unit during the Second World War and who during the course of the war was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
Slater later served in the First World War in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment and held the rank of Captain.