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Howard Joseph Long

Sources Veterans Affairs Canada

Howard Joseph Long Private F/58012 Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C. April 11, 1915 Halifax, NS January 21, 1944 Halifax, NS Sydney, NS 28 Married Steel Worker Roman Catholic Iris Long (Wife) Sydney, NS August 29, 1944 (Killed in Action) 29 Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, France XVII. G. 10. Commemorated on page 375 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on August 9 Private Long was the son of Edward and Catherine Long and the husband of Iris C. Long, of Sydney, Nova Scotia. He was killed in action during a battle of the Falaise Gap on August 29, 1944 while serving with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.