Date of Birth
4 May 1883
College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
Teacher at Stoke Public Higher School, Davenport
Service number
Unknown
WW1 rank
Lieutenant
Royal Army Medical Corps, 10th Battalion, Royal Scots
Theatre of war
Europe
Date of death
22 August 1917
Location of death
Paschendale – 3rd Battle of Ypres
Buried/memorial
Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium (Grave/Memorial reference: Panel 11-14 and 162)
Biography
Lieutenant Austin Theodore Long attended Borough Road College as a Triarian and graduated from the college with a BA in 1903. He went on to get a BSc in 1908. He had been a teacher in Dresden, Germany on a scholarship before teaching in Devonport, Croydon, Kendal, tutoring at Dalton Hall Manchester University, then teaching at the grammar school in Drayton, and then Kendal again. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a Private on 1 September 1914 but was later commissioned into the 10th Battalion Royal Scots and became an expert bombing officer in grenade warfare. He was 34 when he dies at the 3rd Battle of Ypres (known as Passchendaele) on 22 August 1917.
Sources
Entry on p.85 [Roll of Honour page], Mentioned on Framed Borough Road College Roll of Honour, Borough Road College 1900 applications, 1904 Annual Report, The O.B.’s War Hum and Roll of Service (1918, 4th Edition)