Corporal William Langham enlisted in the early 1900’s and was promoted to Lance Corporal on 26th October 1910 with 2nd Battalion, A Company.  He served in India with 1st Battalion and later landed in France on 19th September 1914.  The Nottingham Evening Post listed him as missing 6 to 10 December 1914 but he had been taken prisoner and on 8th January 1915 he was being held in the POW camp at Hamelin, Germany.