Name
Ernest James Long (*1)
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/09/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
54863
Royal Field Artillery
D Bty. 18th Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
XXVI. D. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
A WILLING SACRIFICE
UK & Other Memorials
G B Kent & Sons (Kent's Brushes) Memorial, Apsley
Pre War
Ernest James Long was born in 1893 in Eton, Bucks, the son of William and Florence Annie Long.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Belle Vue, Eton College, where his father was working as a School Porter. They had moved to 7 Sunbury Road, Tangier Lane, Eton, Bucks, in 1911, when his father was working as a School Porter at Eton College and Ernest was a bootmaker's apprentice.
He worked at G B Kent & Sons (Kent's Brushes) prior to enlistment, and his parents later lived at 13 King's Road, Slough, Bucks.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London and served with the Royal Field Artillery, D battery, 18th Brigade from 25 August 1915.
He died of wounds received in action at the 7th Canadian General Hospital, Etaples on 24 September 1917.
Additional Information
*1 It is believed that he appears as E J Long on the GB Kent memorial. His father William received a war gratuity of £13 and pay owing of £19 6s 10d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
