Brigadier General H. S. Langhorne, CB, CMG (d. 1932)
/Memorial to Brigadier General H.S.Langhorne CB, CMG. is commemorated by a memorial on the north wall of the Lady Chapel.
The Lady Chapel was formerly the Chapel of The King's School, Rochester.
IN LOVING MEMORY OF BRIG. GENERAL HAROLD STEPHEN LANGHORNE CB CMG ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS
A KING'S SCHOLAR 1878-1883
DIED 26 JUNE 1932 AGED 65
The Roffensian Register (1936 edition) gives the following details:
LANGHORNE, Harold Stephen. 1878-85 (from Tonbridge School). King's Scholar 1879. Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Lieutenant Royal Artillery. Captain 1895, R.A.Ordnance 1898; Ordnance Officer(4th class), 1896; Major 1904; Lieut-Colonel 1907; 2nd in Command Royal Army Clothing Factory, 1910-17; Colonel 1914; Brigadier-General, CB, CMG, in despatches twice 1918; DDOS, Lines of Communication, France 1919; Cologne and Constantinople; Egypt 1920. Retired 1923. Died 1932.
The Royal Army Ordnance Corps deals with the armament and equipment of the army. Its history goes back to 1418, and from the middle of the fifteenth century until the nineteenth the Ordnance Department was at the Tower of London. Motto: Honi soil qui mal y Pense.
From the notebooks ‘The Naval and Military Memorials of Rochester Cathedral’ (1979)
by Roy Trett, OBE, TD,
Rochester Cathedral Chapter Library
The medieval tombs of the Presbytery and Quire Transept have had a tortured history which many effigies apparently moved and several defaced along with the medieval memorials and brasses over the Early Modern period.
