Harold Stephen Langhorne met his future wife after he fell from a horse during a polo match in India.

In order to recover from the fall he was seated beside her and her father Major General Frederick Edward Hadow, believed to have been a senior officer of the Hyderabad Contingent Force.

Prior to the outbreak of and during the beginning of the first world war he was working and living at the Royal Army Clothing Depot, Grosvenor Road, Pimlico, London.

His daughter, Elizabeth Vowles, who lived there during the first world war described the depot and his role there thus: he was literally a factory manager, making clothing, from boots and socks up to ceremonial scarlet uniforms... After the Boer war till a scramble to enlist in 1914 it sufficed one clothing factory to keep it (the British Army) clad.

By 1916 we were ejected from the Royal Army Clothing Department and the whole place given up to machines and packing; father must have been busy well before that in organising extended work in the hugh Olympia and the White City.

He was still I suppose working there in 1917 as he was living at home but by 1918 he was constantly away, at first in France behind the lines I suppose laying lines for supply to the Big Push which finally drove the Germans back by November 1918.He was promoted to temporary brigadier general in January 1917[7] and later sent to Salonika in the East Mediterranean.

On 29 September 1918 his oldest son Lieutenant Francis Harold Langhorne was killed in action while serving with the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles in northern France.

It reads: "In loving memory of Brig General Harold Stephen Langhorne CB CMG Royal army ordnance corps.