Walter Long (lieutenant)
Appearance
Lieutenant Walter Hillyar Colquhoun Long | |
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Born | London, United Kingdom | 20 October 1858
Died | 18 February 1892 London, United Kingdom | (aged 33)
Allegiance | ![]() |
Service/ | ![]() |
Rank | Second Lieutenant |
Unit | 6th Dragoons 94th Foot |
Battles/wars | First Boer War |
Walter Hillyar Colquhoun Long (20 October 1858 – 18 February 1892) was a British Second Lieutenant who fought in the First Boer War.[1] He was originally a second lieutenant in the 6th Dragoons, but was then transferred to the 94th Regiment of Foot on 27 March 1880.[2] As part of the 94th Regiment, he played a crucial part in the defence of Lydenburg during a three month siege in 1881.[3][4][5] He was the son of the British politician Walter Long.[6] He took his life at the Grosvenor Hotel, Buckingham Palace Road, Westminster,[7] after being court-martialled and criticised for his conduct of the defence of Lydenburg.
References
[edit]- ^ "First Anglo-Boer War 1880-1881". Retrieved 15 December 2013.
After 5 December 1880 less than a hundred soldiers under 24 year-old Lieutenant Walter Long were left in Lydenburg.
- ^ "THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 26, 1880" (PDF). The London Gazette. 26 March 1880. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
94th Foot, Second Lieutenant Walter Hillyar-Colquhoun Long, from the 6th Dragoons, to be Second Lieutenant, vice H Cowper, promoted. Dated 27th March, 1880.
- ^ M. Gough Palmer. "The Besieged Towns of the First Boer War, 1880-1881". Retrieved 15 December 2013.
...and on receipt of instructions from Pretoria immediately set to work to strengthen the defences.
- ^ M. Gough Palmer. "The Besieged Towns of the First Boer War, 1880-1881". Retrieved 15 December 2013.
Lieutenant Walter Long, a 24-year old junior officer of the 94th, was placed in command...
- ^ Charles Norris-Newman (1884). With the Boers in the Transvaal and the Orange free state in 1880-1. p. 248. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
...application was made to Lieutenant Long, commanding the detachment left in the fort, to join the town in a system of general defence.
- ^ "Inquests". The Times. 23 February 1892. p. 11.
- ^ "LONG Walter Hillyar Colquhoun of the Grosvenor Hotel, Buckingham Palace Road Middlesex" in Wills and Administrations 1892 (England and Wales) (1893), p. T 145
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