Private 22694 John LONG
4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
Killed in Action, Saturday 1st January 1916, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Age 37
Home address:
29 North Railway Street, Easington, County Durham
Born:
1879, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Esther Long and Patrick Long
6 Cheapside, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Boiler Coverer
Enlisted:
Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:
Redoubt Cemetery, Helles, Turkey, table 479, inscription: "believed to be buried in this cemetery".
Link to Hyde:
Born in Hyde
Brother of Lance Corporal 12202 Walter Long and Lance Corporal 20404 William Long.
From the Manchester Evening News, 4th February 1916, page 2, column 4:
Mrs Long, of Cheapside, Hyde, has given all her sons to the service of their country, and two of them have been killed, while another is a prisoner of war and a fourth has been seriously wounded. The latest victim is Private John Long, of the Worcestershire Regiment, who was killed in the Dardanelles on January 1. In July last [year] Mrs Long received a message from His Majesty congratulating her on having given her six sons to the service of the country.
The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by Miss N Long, 6 Cheapside, Hyde: