Walter Long (lieutenant)

{{Infobox military person

| honorific_prefix = Lieutenant

| name = Walter Hillyar Colquhoun Long

| birth_date = {{birth date|1858|10|20|df=yes}}

| birth_place = London, United Kingdom

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1892|02|18|1858|10|20|df=yes}}

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| caption =

| rank = Second lieutenant

| serviceyears =

| allegiance = {{UK}}

| branch = 23px British Army

| death_place = London, United Kingdom

| awards =

| unit = 6th Dragoons
94th Foot

| battles = First Boer War

Siege of Lydenburg

}}

Walter Hillyar Colquhoun Long (20 October 1858 – 18 February 1892) was a British Army officer who fought in the First Boer War.{{cite web|title=First Anglo-Boer War 1880-1881|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/south-africa-1806-1899/first-anglo-boer-war-1880-1881|accessdate=15 December 2013|quote=After 5 December 1880 less than a hundred soldiers under 24 year-old Lieutenant Walter Long were left in Lydenburg.}}

He was first commissioned into the 2nd Somerset Militia as a sub-lieutenant in March 1877,{{London Gazette

| issue = 24435

| date = 20 March 1877

| page = 2134

}} but in October of that year he was ranked as lieutenant, backdated to March.{{London Gazette

| issue = 24509

| date = 5 October 1877

| page = 5513

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}} In October 1878 he was transferred to the 6th Dragoons with the rank of second lieutenant,{{London Gazette

| issue = 24630

| date = 4 October 1878

| page = 5423

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}} and in March 1880 he was transferred again to the 94th Regiment of Foot.{{London Gazette

| issue = 24827

| date = 26 March 1880

| page = 2248

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}} As part of the 94th Regiment, at the age of 24 he played a crucial part in the defence of Lydenburg during a three month siege in 1881.{{cite web|title=The Besieged Towns of the First Boer War, 1880-1881|url=http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol052mg.html|accessdate=15 December 2013|author=M. Gough Palmer|quote=...and on receipt of instructions from Pretoria immediately set to work to strengthen the defences.}}{{cite web|title=The Besieged Towns of the First Boer War, 1880-1881|url=http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol052mg.html|accessdate=15 December 2013|author=M. Gough Palmer|quote=Lieutenant Walter Long, a 24-year old junior officer of the 94th, was placed in command...}}{{cite book|title=With the Boers in the Transvaal and the Orange free state in 1880-1|year=1884|page=[https://archive.org/details/withboersintrans00norr/page/248 248]|url=https://archive.org/details/withboersintrans00norr|author=Charles Norris-Newman|accessdate=17 December 2013|author-link=Charles Norris-Newman|quote=...application was made to Lieutenant Long, commanding the detachment left in the fort, to join the town in a system of general defence.}}

He was the son of the landowner and politician Walter Long.{{cite news | title = Inquests | pages = 11 | newspaper = The Times | date = 23 February 1892 }} After he was court-martialled and criticised for his conduct of the defence of Lydenburg, in February 1892 he took his life at the Grosvenor Hotel, Buckingham Palace Road, Westminster;"LONG Walter Hillyar Colquhoun of the Grosvenor Hotel, Buckingham Palace Road Middlesex" in Wills and Administrations 1892 (England and Wales) (1893), p. T 145{{cite news |date=23 February 1892 |title=Inquests |newspaper=The Times |pages=11}} he was described as "formerly of Paris".{{London Gazette

| issue = 26298

| date = 17 June 1892

| page = 3546

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}}