Name
Thomas Patrick Long
10 Feb 1881
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/07/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Inspector of Works
Indian Railway Department
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BASRA MEMORIAL
Panel 59.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Letchworth memorials
Pre War
Thomas Patrick Long was born on 10 Feb 1881 in Fulham, Middx., to Patrick Long, bricklayer’s labourer, and Ellen (nee Baker).
On the 1881 Census the family of parents, Catherine (Kate, born 1879) and Thomas were living at 3, Amberley Terrace, Fulham.
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Catherine, Mary Ann (born 1889), Thomas, Margaret (born 1886), Lily (born 1888) and John (born 1890) were living in Harmondsworth.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Thomas (bricklayer’s labourer), Margaret (ironer at laundry), Lily and Mary (born 1895) were living at 99, Sherbrook Road, Fulham.
Thomas may have gone to India aboard ship Quarah on 2 Jun 1905.
Thomas married Alice Margaret Jones on 8 Aug 1908 in Madras, India. There would be two children : Ellen Mary (born 24 Mar 1910) & Margaret Annette (born 24 May 1912). They lived at Imperial Mansions, Ripon Rd., Byculla, Bombay, India.
On the 1911 Census, Thomas’s parents (father was working as market gardener) and family of Catherine, Mary Ann, Robert Thomas (grandson, born ) were living at 17, Grove Road, Feltham, Middx., with boarders – William Freer & George Wright and visitor Alfred Cook.
His parents came to live at 102, Glebe Rd., Letchworth, Herts;
Son of Patrick and Ellen Long, of 102, Glebe Rd., Letchworth, Herts; husband of Alice Long, of
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for Thomas, technically he was a civilian and he was listed as part of the Inspector of Works, Indian Army. This Unit provided Engineering support to the Indian Army Troops in the Expeditionary Force D in Mesopotamia. It is likely that he arrived in Basra in early 1915, soon after Force D had landed in Basra.
His death is recorded as Heat Stroke on 18 Jul 1918. There is little to indicate whether this was the primary cause or was the result of becoming a casualty and contracting Heat stroke while awaiting evacuation at Basra.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
