This name is on Holy Trinity WW1 Memorial, London SW4
Service no. 3288
Killed in action on 26 May 1915, aged 22
Private, London Regiment, 1/23rd Bn.
CWGC: "Son of Felix L. and Clara L. Langton, of 24, The Pavement, Clapham Common, London."
Remembered at Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Information from the 1911 census
John Lancelott Langton, described on the census as a "cycle maker" was 18 and assisting in his father's shop at 24 The Pavement, Clapham, within sight of Holy Trinity church. His father, Felix Lancelott Langton, 46, was a cycle maker and dealer, born in Camberwell, and his mother, Clara Louisa Langton, 44, was born in Stockwell. John and his brother, Felix, aged 10, like him born in Stockwell, were Felix and Clara's two surviving children (of three). The family lived above the business in nine rooms.