Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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LONG, HECTOR CHARLES WARWICK

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Studio portrait of 699 Sergeant Hector Charles Long (alias Nestor Charles Warwick), 40th Battalion. A carpenter of Hobart, Tas, he enlisted on 26 January 1916 and sailed with C Company aboard HMAT Berrima on 1 July 1916. He was killed in action, aged 23, on 28 March 1918. He is buried at Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L'Abbe, France.

Mrs. Long of 28 Strahan Street, North Hobart, has received the following letter from Sergeant B. W. Turner as to the death of her son, Sergeant Hector Charles Long :

"Dear Mrs. Long- It is indeed a sad man that is trying to write these few lines and you have my deepest sympathy in the sad loss of your son. 1 was away from the company when he was killed. On joining up a day or two ago I was very sorry to learn his sad fate. He was in my platoon, and acted as platoon sergeant while I was away. The men used to think a great deal of him, and highly, too, because he was a man every inch of him, and a soldier : none was better. He honestly won his decoration, D.C.M., and if he had lived it would not have stopped at that. Ho was a brave lad, and one that any one of the lads would have followed. You have some consolation in knowing that he died in the noblest manner possible and may God give you strength to bear your sad loss. Words fail to express my feelings, Mrs Long, but my deepest sympathy goes to you and yours in your great loss.-Yours sincerely, B. W. Turner, sergeant."

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