Name
Horace Benjamin Langdon
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/03/1915
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/7267
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ESTAIRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION
III. B. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
"WE SHALL MEET AT JESU'S FEET"
UK & Other Memorials
Broxbourne Town Memorial, St Augustine’s Church Memorial, Broxbourne, Broxbourne C Of E Primary School Memorial, Not on the Ware memorials
Pre War
Horace Benjamin LANGDON was born in 1886, in Ware, Hertfordshire, son of Edwin James Langdon a Stationary Engine Driver and Charlotte Langdon (nee Timson). The eldest of eight children. They were married on 25th December 1885, in Hornsey Rise, London.
1891 Census records Horace aged 4, living with his parents, sisters Gladys (2) and Irene (2 months), at New River Pumping Station Cottage, Court field, Broxbourne, Herts.
1901 Census, Horace (14) has left school and is working as an Agricultural Labourer, still living at New River Pumping Station Cottage, with his parents, three sisters and three brothers.
1911 Census, Horace (24) is working as a Stoke, living with his parents, three brothers and three sisters, still at New River Pumping station cottage.
Wartime Service
Horace travelled to the County Town of Hertford to enlist, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment and issued with the service number 4/7267.
On completion of his training, he was sent to France, arriving on 11th November 1914. He died on 13th March 1915, of wounds received in action, (probably in hospital at Estaires) at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle (Battle of Neuve Chapelle 10th to 13th March 1915), he is buried in Estaires Communal Cemetery and Extension, Nord, France. Grave Ref: III. B. 10.
Additional Information
His effects of £10-00-05, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3, went to his mother Charlotte.
His Headstone inscription “WE SHALL MEET AT JESU’S FEET” was requested by Mr. E. J. Langdon, New River Well, Broxbourne, Herts, his father.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Richard Barber, Malcolm Lennox
