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Description: | Captain Selden Herbert Long DSO MC. Unit: Durham Light Infantry, attached to No. 24 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: Not known.
Captain Long was born in Aldershot, Hampshire in 1895 and is believed to have been the son of Major General Sidney Selden Long. Captain Long joined the Army and was commissioned into the Durham Light Infantry before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps. During the First World War he served as fighter pilot with No. 24 Squadron on the Western Front, shooting down nine German aircraft between 1915 and March 1917.
Captain Long was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry in September 1915, and the DSO in 1917. After the First World War, he published a memoir 'Into the Blue' (1920) and a study 'Navigational Wireless' (1927).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Long Aerial Warfare Selden Herbert Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force 1912-1918 | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Swaine F A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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