Memorial Celebration in 2007
On 9 September 2007 Kings Langley village celebrated Christopher Augustus Cox's life and daring deeds in a village ceremony. The High Street was closed to traffic to allow a marching piping band, standard bearers, ex service men and women, local dignitaries and members of the Cox family to parade from the Kings Langley Methodist Church along the High Street to The Parish Church for a memorial service. The Last Post by bugle was played within the Church and by the grave. The congregation then moved to the community center, where artifacts relating to Christopher Cox's Life were on display.
Kings Langley village is to be twinned with Achiet-le-Grand in France in November 2009, in honour of Christopher Cox .
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