Thank you to Jane Anthony for the following research.
Very few details can be found about Charles William Langston, he was the oldest son and second child of Charles and Clara Langston and born in about 1881, when they were living in Ipswich. In 1891 he was living with the rest of his family in Peckham. He then disappears until enlisting in the Royal Fusiliers. It is possible that he was living outside the UK or he may have enlisted in the regular army. Certainly one of his younger brothers was a regular soldier in the Kings Own Hussars.
The Royal Fusiliers were a territorial regiment and were made up of volunteers, the battalion that he joined were also know as the Princess Louise or the Kensington Battalion, which is where they drew most of their recruits from. Therefore it is quite likely he was living in that area at the time he joined up. He died, aged 35, of wounds on 18th June 1915 of wounds received at Ypres and is buried at the Bedford House Cemetery in Ypres. There is no record of any effects left, but it is unlikely that he was married.
The Langston family certainly moved around to various parts of the country at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Their father Charles Bradby Langston was born in Wantage Berkshire and his wife Clara in Reading. At various times they lived in Plymouth, Ipswich, Stoke Newington, Peckham and Holmwood. Charles Bradby made a living as a salesman, selling both dried fruits and tea at various times. There were seven children in the family of whom six were living in 1911. At that time they were living at Fernhurst in Holmwood. Their eldest daughter Constance was also living in South Holmwood with her husband Alfred Bourne, who earned his living repairing shoes. They had married in 1908.
The Langston family undoubtedly had connections to South Holmwood through their parents and sister although it is unlikely that either of the brothers actually lived in South Holmwood or Dorking.
| Born | Ipswich, Suffolk | |
| Lived | Wokingham, Berkshire | |
| Son of | Mrs Charles J. and Clara Langston of Holmwood, Surrey | |
| Brother of | Alfred Langston | |
| Regiment | 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers | |
| Number | L/9179 | |
| Date of Death | 18th June 1915 | |
| Place of Death | Ypres, Belguim | |
| Cause of Death | Died of Wounds | |
| Age | 35 | |
| Cemetery | Bedford House Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium |
