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Picture courtesy of Aubrey's

IGS 1895 (1) Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (4106 Pte. F. Humphreys. 1st Bn Ryl: W. Kent Regt.);
QSA (3) Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (4106 Pte. F. Humphreys. 2nd Rl W. Kent Regt.);
[ KSA (2) ]

KSA listed on WO100/338p49

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (6093 Pte. G. Russell. Rl: W. Kent Regt.);
British War and Victory Medals (235375 Sjt. G. Russell. Midd’x R.);
Defence Medal

Picture courtesy of Spink

QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State and South Africa 1901, (Capt. W. H. B. Long. 2/R.W.Kent Rgt);
1914-15 Star (Capt. W. H. B. Long I. Gds.);
British War and Victory Medals (Lt Col. W. H. B. Long)

William Hoare Bourchier Long was born on 22 March 1868 at Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France, the son of, Sir Richard Penruddocke Long. William's brother was Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long. On his father's side he was descended from an old family of Wiltshire gentry, and on his mother's side from Anglo-Irish gentry in County Wicklow. When young, his father inherited the Rood Ashton estate in Wiltshire.

Educated at Harrow and later Oxford he was commissioned in the Royal West Kent Regiment in 1889 serving in the mounted infantry. William served with the Regiment in the Boer War but returned to Ireland on 3 April 1900 to take up an appointment as ADC to Earl Cadogan, then the Governor General of Ireland.

While there he transferred to the Irish Guards very soon after their formation on 24 July. Whilst not a founding officer he was one of the first men to transfer into the Regiment, possibly due to his position on the Governor's Staff. Long married Vera Cecily Marchant Oliver on 25 November 1911 at London and had a son with her. He was living at Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, in 1871 and later Saxlingham, Norfolk, 1911.

Entering the war in France in March 1915 where he served as a Commandant of an infantry base depot in France. William was living in Italy at the beginning of the Second World War and upon Italy entering the war wisely decided to leave embarking on a ship heading for Australia where he eventually settled.

William died at Canberra, Australia on 17 July 1943 and is buried in the Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales, survived by his widow and one son, Lieutenant R. O. B. Long, who served during the Second World War in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. His widow donated a new window in the Regimental cloister in the Guards Chapel on 26 May 1968.