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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

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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

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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.

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QSA (3) Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (4583 Pte. R. Backman. 2:R: West Kent Regt.);
KSA (2) )4583 Pte. R. Backman. 2:R: West Kent Regt.)

The auctioneers state he was Injured at Heidelberg 23rd May 1902, 13th Mounted Infantry.

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QSA (5) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5923 Pte. S. Yule. R. W. Kent R.);
1914-15 Star (12833 Pte. S. R. Yule. R. Fus.);
British War and Victory Medals (12833 Pte. S. R. Yule. R. Fus.);

Together with duplicate British War Medal 1914-20 (9640 Pte. S. R. Yule. 3-Can. Inf.) and Royal Frontiersmen cap badge, shoulder title and button.

Samuel Richard Yule was born in Camberwell, London. He served with the 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment during the Second Boer War, and was ‘Invalided’. Yule emigrated with his wife Margaret to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1911, and was subsequently employed with his wife by the Grand Union Hotel, 174 Front Street, Toronto. Yule was employed as a waiter at the Globe Hotel, Collingwood, Ontario, when he enlisted in the 3rd Battalion (Toronto Regiment), CEF in August 1914. He had been already serving as member of the 2nd Regiment Queen’s Own Rifles (Militia).

Yule went with the 3rd Battalion to the UK, where he was employed as a Batman. He transferred to the newly formed 25th (Frontiersmen) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, and served with them during the Great War in the East Africa theatre of operations from 10 April 1915. Yule was hospitalised in Nairobi and Cape with Malaria and an enlarged spleen in August 1915. He was invalided to Cape Town the following year, having suffered multiple relapses of Malaria. The unit was dissolved in 1917, and Yule was subsequently transferred to the Gloucestershire Regiment. He returned to Toronto, Canada in March 1919, and re-enlisted for service with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Yule advanced to Corporal, and was posted to the Dominion Orthopaedic Hospital. He was discharged at the age of 40 in October 1920.