Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private E. Long, Rifle Brigade, who died of disease at Ladysmith on 25 March 1900

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3780. Pte. E. Long. 2/R: Bde.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (3780 Pte. E. Long, Rifle Brigade); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (3) £400-£500

Ernest Long attested for the Rifle Brigade and served with the 2nd Battalion in the Sudan, and subsequently in South Africa during the Boer War, where he died of enteric fever at Ladysmith on 25 March 1900.