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Military service
Service number:
G/22207
Age:
31
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
November 30, 1910
Glencoe, Restigouche County, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
June 11, 1940
Campbellton, New Brunswick
Death:
December 26, 1941
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 24.
Additional information
Son of Myrtle Purdy; as a baby, he was adopted by Phoebe Long, (explaining why Long is his last name) and when she died, he was under custody of Walter Conners and Anne Elizabeth Christopher.
He enlisted on 11 June 1940 with the 1st Battalion, North Shore (NB) Regiment, C Company, service number G-22207, in Campbellton, Restigouche, New Brunswick. Discharged from service on 18 September 1940 for being medically unfit, he joined, on the 20th, the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada, service number E-30535.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Rifleman John Richard Long
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Memorial
Rifleman JOHN RICHARD LONG is one of 30 members of the Royal Rifles of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He died of wounds substained during the defense of Hong Kong which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. In total 290 Canadian soldiers were killed and 493 were wounded in this battle. -
Inscription
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Newspaper clipping
Rifleman JOHN RICHARD LONG was reported Missing in Action in the Canadian Army's 243rd overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8, 1943. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong.
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong.
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada.
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Rifleman John Richard Long
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Richard Long
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Richard Long
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Richard Long
Digital gallery of
Rifleman John Richard Long
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 36 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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