[2] He was interviewed on 28 December 1916, for a commission as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces and was assessed as ‘A1 bright fellow’ and sent off to join the 58th London Division in France.
[3] In May, 1917, at Bullecourt, ‘he was struck by a rifle bullet which entered below the elbow at back of Rt forearm and passed out 2” above wrist behind fracturing and partially dividing ulna nerve’.
[8] After this he was Warden of the Trinity College Mission, Camberwell and after that Rural Dean of Kingston before his elevation to the episcopate.
Even though he had retired from Woolwich in 1947, curiously the Archbishop of Canterbury recommended him for the vacant seat of Portsmouth in 1948, because Lang was ‘an excellent preacher and a safe pair of hands’.
The Prime Minister's Secretary, however, regraded Lang's health as ‘doubtful’ and 42-year-old Launcelot Fleming was appointed.