Author’s Introduction 1 Background to the Great War 2 Call to Arms 3 5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment 5 Territorial Force - Oakham Company 5 1914 Event Time Line 6 1915 Event Time Line 7 1916 Event Time Line 8 1917 Event Time Line 9 1918 Event Time Line 10 John Henry Davenport 11 Henry Robert Augustus Adeane 12 Thomas William Burdett 13 Harold Percy Vincent 14 Ernest James Munday 15 John Thomas Casterton 16 Elijah Thompson 17 Sidney Albert Stimpson 18 Henry Wyatt Cole 19 Ernest Knott 20 Charles Lowe 21 Percy Albert Smith 22 George Skillett 23 William Thorpe 24 John Robert Horton 25 William Palmer 26

Arthur Cox 27 William Needham 28 Herbert Horton 29 John Charles Smith 30 Wilfred Frank Burton 31 Bryan Smith 32 Alfred Breakspear 33 Harold Fox-Pitt Lubbock 34 Reginald Lowe 35 Albert George Gosling 36 John William Breakspear 37 The Wellington Quarry Tunnels - Arras 38 War Graves 39 Langham Church - Hymn For Our Soldiers 41 The Dead Man’s Penny 42 Menin Gate 43 Pip, Squeak and Wilfred 44 The Silver War Badge 46 The Territorial Force Medal 1914-1919 46 Langham Baptist Chapel 47 Langham War Memorial 48 Memorial to Twenty-Six War Heroes 50 In Flanders Field 52 We should also remember... 53 Bibliography: 54