Lieutenant

Walter Hillyar Colquhoun Long
Born(1858-10-20)20 October 1858
London, United Kingdom
Died18 February 1892(1892-02-18) (aged 33)
London, United Kingdom
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankSecond Lieutenant
Unit6th Dragoons
94th Foot
Battles/warsFirst 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

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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...
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Inquests". The Times. 23 February 1892. p. 11.
  7. ↑ "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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