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Book Review
Langham Remembers Them
- By Brenda Burdett
Published in 2014 by Langham Village History Group - ISBN 978190097041 - Price £5.00
Available from Rutland County Museum or the Group’s website
The Langham book was created as part of an Arts Council England funded
project to increase engagement with the museums and heritage of Rutland.
In this it succeeds not by just repeating the work of George Phillips in Rutland
and the Great War, but by drawing upon folk memory within the village, and
additional material, to give a more comprehensive record of those men from
Langham who fought in the First World War.
Indeed, this is a much more complete and interesting record than ever
Phillips attained. It gives a contextual background to the war itself before giving
an illustrated biography of each soldier, including one not mentioned on the
war Memorial. In the concluding pages of this small handsomely produced fifty-
four page hardback, the story of the construction and dedication of the
Langham war memorial is recorded together with a list of those who lost their
lives in the Second World War. This surely is the next project for Rutland villages:
to record the lives of service men and women from the local community who
served in the Second World War and who don't have a book such as Rutland
and the Great War, or indeed sometimes any village war Memorial to
commemorate them.
Hilary J Crowden