Date of birth:

1919

Date of death:

November 14th, 1944 (Tungelroy)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Cemetery Nederweert
Plot: II. Row: B. Grave: 11.

Service number:

956637

Nationality:

British (1801-present, Kingdom)

On 14 November 1944, a battery of the 4th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, an artillery unit within the 4th British Armored Brigade commanded by the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division.
The unit was set up in a meadow behind a farm on the Tungeler Dorpsstraat in Tungelroy.
At 4:00 pm approximately 400 cannons opened fire towards the Wessem Canal, Nederweert and the Noordervaart, this was the preliminary shelling of Operation Mallard.

During the shelling, the German Artillery responded by firing back at the British Artillery positions.
Dozens of German shells fell in the area. One of them fell in the yard of the farm and exploded just in front of the wooden
barn door, where some British soldiers were still located. A shard hit the 25-year-old
Gordon Langley, who was behind this door, he was hit in the back, he died on the spot, he was 25
yes. He is wrapped in a horse blanket and placed in the stable behind the Cows.

The next day gunner Gordon Langley was buried in the garden behind the house. A simple
wooden cross was hammered together, and the grave was lined with bricks set on its side.
Only a bunch of wilted chrysanthemums adorned his grave.
Two years after the war, Gordon Langley was reburied in Nederweert.

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