Name
Leslie Gaspard Langmore
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
The Parish Magazine of October 1915 records Leslie, who was serving as a Captain in the 11th King's Liverpool Regiment, as ‘indirectly connected to Pirton’. Michael Newbery believes that Leslie was probably related to the Rev Erskine William Langmore, who was vicar of Pirton between 1903 and 1922.
Parish and census records provide no further information. However, one possible clue comes from the Parish Magazine of August 1915, which records that the Vicar’s brother had been shot through the thigh, having already been wounded twice before, and was in a hospital in Rouen, France. Adrian Pitt has been able to confirm that Leslie was indeed Rev Langmore’s brother and born around 1870. Their other siblings were Alfred F (b 1860), Alice E (b 1863), Florence M (b 1867) and Dora E (b 1872). Their father was also Erskine W Langmore served in the British Army in India where the children were born. Leslie joined Dorsetshire Regiment October 30th 1889 and then the Bedfordshire Regiment January 18th 1894 and served in the Boer War and in the period was wounded twice 1900 and 1901. By 1911 he had left the army and was living at 51 Erleigh Road, Reading and recorded as a widower and army pensioner. At 44 he must have rejoined to serve in the Great War, he survived and died in London in 1936 age 67.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission, Adrian Pitt
