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Private Albert Long was seriously wounded on 26 Sep 1917 in an attack by his 8th Battalion of the East Yorkshire regiment on German lines at Zonnebecke in the Ypres Salient, Belgium. The Beverley Guardian of 13 Oct 1917 contained a letter to his wife from Sister C O Schofield of the 61st Casualty Clearing Station stating that;
“Your husband was admitted here on the 26th but died on the 30th. He had a severe shell wound of the left side of his chest, penetrating his lung. At the time of his death, he was only semi-conscious so left no messages, but he died quite peacefully and free from pain….”
Albert was buried in the nearby Dozinghem Military Cemetery. He was awarded the 1915 Star and the War and Victory medals.
Albert joined the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment (the “Beverley Terriers”) and arrived in France on 1 Nov 1915. He served in Belgium, on the Somme in 1916 and in the Battle of Arras in Apr 1917.
George Albert Long was born in Beverley in 1883 and married Florrie Hancock (1886-1978) of Beckside in 1906 at Beverley Minster. They had three children Dorothy born 1907, John Harold born 1910 and Bernard born 1913. Albert was a house painter after leaving school but became a ships painter at the Beverley shipyard. The family home was in Wilbert Lane but after his death, Florrie lived at Jubilee Terrace at the eastern end of Grovehill Road. Albert’s father William West Long was from Goodmanham and was a farm worker before working for rhe N E Railway at Beverley as a goods’ porter. His mother, Emma Blakeston was from Cranswick. Albert had two sisters and three brothers, two brothers Tom and Ernest also worked in the shipyard.
Albert is remembered on the Hengate War Memorial and on the East Riding Memorial in Beverley Minster. In 1922 Florrie married Harry Otter of Beverley, but did not have any more children. They lived at 339 Grovehill Road, Beverley.
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