Walter Long (lieutenant) explained
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.
Notes and References
- Web site: First Anglo-Boer War 1880-1881. 15 December 2013. After 5 December 1880 less than a hundred soldiers under 24 year-old Lieutenant Walter Long were left in Lydenburg..
- News: THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 26, 1880. 31 December 2013. The London Gazette. 26 March 1880. 94th Foot, Second Lieutenant Walter Hillyar-Colquhoun Long, from the 6th Dragoons, to be Second Lieutenant, vice H Cowper, promoted. Dated 27th March, 1880..
- Web site: The Besieged Towns of the First Boer War, 1880-1881. 15 December 2013. M. Gough Palmer. ...and on receipt of instructions from Pretoria immediately set to work to strengthen the defences..
- Web site: The Besieged Towns of the First Boer War, 1880-1881. 15 December 2013. M. Gough Palmer. Lieutenant Walter Long, a 24-year old junior officer of the 94th, was placed in command....
- Book: With the Boers in the Transvaal and the Orange free state in 1880-1. 1884. 248. Charles Norris-Newman. 17 December 2013. Charles Norris-Newman. ...application was made to Lieutenant Long, commanding the detachment left in the fort, to join the town in a system of general defence..
- News: Inquests . 11 . The Times . 23 February 1892 .
- "LONG Walter Hillyar Colquhoun of the Grosvenor Hotel, Buckingham Palace Road Middlesex" in Wills and Administrations 1892 (England and Wales) (1893), p. T 145
