Dr Aidan George Gabriel (Guy) Long ° & Helen Croil (Michel) Vlasto °

Family Group Sheet

NameDr Aidan George Gabriel (Guy) Long °

Birth9 Jun 1915, Sandgate, Kent, England

Death24 Nov 2003, Bridge Cottage, Brasted, Kent, England

Residence1920s-1939, The Rectory, Aldington, Near Ashford, Kent, England

Residence1946-1953, Monksway, Westerham Kent, England

Residence1953-1972, Courtlands, Westerham, Kent, England

Residence1972, Bridge Cottage, Brasted, Kent, England

OccupationPhysician.

EducationSt Edmund’s School, Canterbury and Queen’s College, Cambridge. The London Hospital.

OriginKent, England.

Note 1Surg. Lt RNVR 1939-45. After WWll he was for 39 years a G.P. in Westerham, Kent.

Flags***, Denn, Desormeaux, Gilson, Le Noble, Long, Poole, Sanderson

FatherReverend Guy Stephenson (David) Long ° (1878-1970)

MotherIvy Marion (Edward) Gilson ° (1877-1965)

Marriage28 Nov 1946, St Mark’s Church, North Audley Street, Mayfair, London, England

Married MemoPriest: The Rev'd Guy Stephenson Long

SpouseHelen Croil (Michel) Vlasto °, GGG Granddaughter

Birth15 Apr 1920, 29 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, England

MemoHer grandmother’s home.

Death5 Jul 2001

MemoHeart failure.

Burial11 Jul 2001, Brasted, Kent, England

Baptism15 Sep 1920, Greek Orthodox Cathedral, St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England

Residence1972, Bridge Cottage, Brasted, Kent, England

Residence1953-72, Courtlands, Westerham, Kent, England

Residence1946-1953, Monksway, Westerham Kent, England

Residence1920-1939, 16 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, England

OccupationAuthor.

EducationNorland Place, Kensington, London. Crofton Grange.

Note 1Free French HQ, London then VAD Royal Navy 1940-45. Among her published books: ‘Greek Fire’ (an account of the massacres on Chios), ‘Change Into Uniform’ (an autobiography), ‘Safe Houses Are Dangerous’ (an account of the Pat Line escape network in WWll).

Note 2Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham (1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope) proposed the toast at their marriage at the Garden Suite in the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London.

Note 3In 1940 she served briefly as an interpreter for General de Gaulle at Free French Headquarters, Carlton Gardens, London. She then trained as a nurse and joined the V.A.D. as a nurse at Haslar Hospital and then at 64th General Hospital in Alexandria during the Battle of Alamein.

God-parentsMaria Vlasto and Fanny Rodocanachi (represented by Maria Zarifi and Fanny Rodocanachi) and George M. Croil (her uncle). [Who is this Maria Vlasto?]

OriginLondon.

Flags***, Argenti, Boscovic, Cantacuzene, Caralli, Coressi, Croil, Dickson, Dwerniki, Giustiniani Fi, Giustiniani Pi, Kaplanoglou, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Mitchell, Petrocochino, Rodocanachi, Scanavi, Shives/Chivas, Vlasto, Zarifi

FatherDr Michel Ernest Theodore Dimitri (Ernest) Vlasto ° (1888-1979)

MotherChristian Mitchell (Thomas) Croil ° (1894-1983)

Children

1 FAngela (Aidan) Long (Died as Infant), GGGG Granddaughter

Birth1947, Westerham, Kent, England

Death1947, Westerham, Kent, England

MemoUnknown