CWGC - Nairobi (Forest Road) Cemetery - Serjeant John David Lang, LF/89. Kenya Regiment. 17th October 1939. Block 16. Grave 8.

Aero - Roll of Honour for World War Two, 1939-45 - Sgt. J.D. Lang

Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - John David Lang, British, age 23, died 17/10/39. Son of James Lang, machineman, and Jennie Reid Lang nee Cowan; British. Inscription: In loving memory of Sgt. John David Lang; Kenya Regt. Att. R.A.F.; Killed 17.10.1939; Aged 23 years; We who asked the most of living, know how to give it too

One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 69)

East African Forces Register of Deaths in WW2 Seconded to RAF 6.10.1939 and killed in a flying accident 17.10.1939 before completing the course.

Tom Lawrence: Joined 2^nd June 1937 and posted to 1 Coy. KR. Becomes A/Sergt. on 4^th Oct 1939. Seconded to RAF on 6^th Oct 1939. Killed 11 days after leaving Kenya Regt. –so presumably as a trainee pilot?

EAS 18 Oct 1929 Kenya's first casualty of the war. Lang, 23 year old member of the Kenya Auxiliary Air Unit, died in the European hospital from injuries received when the machine which he was solo piloting crashed some 300 or 400 yards from the fence bordering the aerodrome. He was about to land at the time of the crash. Flying low into the breeze, and it is believed that the engine stalled, that the machine then got into a spin and crashed on its nose and right wing, turning upside down. Lang was extricated from the machine and rushed to hospital where he died very shortly after admission. The machine was a small one which belonged to Wilson Airways before the company was taken over by the RAF and it was very badly damaged. Lang was previously employed in the traffic department of Messrs Wilson Airways and had held an A license. He was in the Kenya Regiment, and it is understood that he was drafted to the AAU only the day before the Regiment left for Kampala. Lang is the son of Mr James Lang of Nairobi. He was educated at the government school in Nairobi and Christ's Hospital in London.