Langham Remembers Them

Description

Langham Remembers Them tells the stories of the men of Langham and Barleythorpe who lost their lives in the Great War: their photographs, their backgrounds, their regiments, where they fought and the circumstances of their deaths. It is the Village History Group's 2014 tribute to these brave men.
Contents include - Author’s Introduction; Background to the Great War; Call to Arms; 5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment; Territorial Force - Oakham Company; 1914-1919 Event Time Line; John Henry Davenport; Henry Robert Augustus Adeane; Thomas William Burdett; Harold Percy Vincent; Ernest James Munday; John Thomas Casterton; Elijah Thompson; Sidney Albert Stimpson; Henry Wyatt Cole; Ernest Knott; Charles Lowe; Percy Albert Smith; George Skillett; William Thorpe; John Robert Horton; William Palmer; Arthur Cox; William Needham; Herbert Horton; John Charles Smith; Wilfred Frank Burton; Bryan Smith; Alfred Breakspear; Harold Fox-Pitt Lubbock; Reginald Lowe; Albert George Gosling; John William Breakspear; The Wellington Quarry Tunnels - Arras; War Graves; Langham Church; The Dead Man’s Penny; Menin Gate; Pip, Squeak and Wilfred; The Silver War Badge; The Territorial Force Medal 1914-1919; Langham Baptist Chapel; Langham War Memorial; Memorial to Twenty-Six War Heroes; In Flanders Field; We should also remember...; Bibliography.