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Wesley-Long, Wellesley Tylney

Identification

Regimental number: 1263566
Battalion / unit at enlistment: 1st Depot Bn SK
U of S affiliation at enlistment: student
Killed, died or wounded: killed
Birth: 3 Mar 1895, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
College Building memorial: Second floor, southeast
Slide number(s): HR-2013

U of S attendance

Entry date College Left - date Left - reason Degree Degree - date Notes
1915 Arts        

Military service - attestation

Volunteer/drafted: drafted
Attestation place: 1st Depot Bn SK
Attestation date: 6 Oct 1917
Present address: 1st Depot Bn SK, SK
Occupation: divinty student
Religion: Anglican
Age: 22 years, 7 months
Height (inches): 67.50
Chest expansion (inches): 35.00
Amount of expansion (inches): 3.50

Military service - assignments

Group Type Location First known date Last known date Reason for end of assignment Notes
5th Can Bn    France      
21st Bn        1918 Oct. 11 KIA RoS for Bn
1st Depot Bn SK      10/6/1917    

Rank

Rank Date Notes
Corporal  
Private   RoS

Death

Date of death: 11 Oct 1918
Cause: killed in action

Family

Father: Wesley -Long, D S
Father's Address: Munich, Bavaria, Germany (1917)

Non-military addresses

Address Occupation Earliest date Latest date Source Notes
Saskatoon  student 1916 1917 U of S Calendar
Ramsgate, UK student 1915 1916 U of S Calendar
Munich, Germany   1928   1928 list
1928 list = "List of Students who enlisted during the Great War," U of S Archives. The list was completed after F. Underhill went to the University of Toronto in 1927; probably in conjunction with the Memorial Gates. Some of the addresses may be from an earlier date.

Sources

National Archives reference: RG 150 Box 10235 - 49
College Building list #: 206
Roll of Honour list #:
Roll of Service (1928) #: 61
Long List #: 61

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