Wilfred Max's Story.
Captain W. Langdon Killed.
Captain Wilfrid Langdon of the Cheshire Regiment, the son of Mr. E.H. Langdon of Silverlands, Altrincham (a past president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce), was killed in action on Sunday.
Born in 1889, Captain Langdon was educated at Rugby, and afterwards became a scholar of New College, Oxford. He took firsts in the final schools at Oxford in Lit. Hum. and in history. Afterwards he went into residence at Tonybee Hall and read for the Bar, being called at the Inner Temple in January 1913, and was about to begin practising on the Northern Circuit when in September 1914, he joined the Public Schools battalion (Middlesex Regiment). He received his commission in the Cheshire Regiment in December 1914.
The Manchester Evening News, Saturday, May 27, 1916.