Ernest James Munday was severely injured on the battlefield and died in hospital in London. Before the First World War he worked at Langham Brewery and served as a Territorial in Oakham Company of the 5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment. When the war began, he volunteered to serve abroad and was sent to the Western Front in February 1915. Ernest was severely wounded in the trenches on 16 June 1915 when a bullet near his spine left him paralysed in both legs. He was sent back to England and treated at King George's Hospital in London but died from his wounds two and a half months later on 28 August 1915. His body was brought back to Langham where he was buried in the churchyard on 1 September with full Military Honours. Ernest was just 19, one of more than 80 "Teenage Tommies" from Rutland.

Extra information and photograph courtesy Langham Village History Group