TWICE AN OFFICER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 October 1913, Page 7

TWICE AN OFFICER.

Captain and Riding Master C. M. Lang of the sth Dragoon Guards of Aldershat, was killed on the railway recently while travelling from Alderahot to Surbiton. Captain Lang, who was fifty years, old, was the son of a former vicar of Bentley, Hampshire. He had had a remarkable career. His first commission was in the .Manchester Regiment, and as a Lieutenant foe took part in the .famous march from Kabul to Kandahar. Wliile serving with his battalion in India he wag the victim of circumstances which are said to have altered the whole course of a brilliant career, for he lent a large sum of (money to a fellowofficer, who died without redeeming his loan, and Lang resigned his commission.) Still young, and with great ambition to distinguish himself in the Army, he joined the 15th Hussars as a privates under an assumed name. His gift in training horses, combined with splendid: horsemanship, led to his being sent to Canterbury, where he quickly qualified as a riding master, and was given a commission of lieutenant and riding master. of the sth Dragoon Guards on October 4tli, 1902. lie then gave his correct name but few knew it was the same Lang who had folught in India. When the King visited Aldershot this May, his Majesty personally congratulated Captain Lang for the admirable jumping display by the recruits of the sth Dragoon Guards which he organised and carried out.