Walter Hillyar Colquhoun Long (20 October 1858 – 18 February 1892) was a British Army officer who fought in the First Boer War.

[1] He was first commissioned into the 2nd Somerset Militia as a sub-lieutenant in March 1877,[2] but in October of that year he was ranked as lieutenant, backdated to March.

[6][7][8] He was the son of the landowner and politician Walter Long.

[9] After he was court-martialled and criticised for his conduct of the defence of Lydenburg, in February 1892 he took his life at the Grosvenor Hotel, Buckingham Palace Road, Westminster;[10][11] he was described as "formerly of Paris".

[12] This biographical article related to the British Army is a stub.