Later Years
On April 27, 1921 he married Marjory Hepburn, née McKerrell-Brown, and together they had a son, Charles McKerrell Longcroft, who was born in 1926. From 1932 to 1948, Longcroft served as a Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod in the Order of the Bath. He was then appointed Registrar and Secretary of the Order of the Bath. He had been knighted in 1938. Air Vice Marshal Sir Charles Alexander Holcombe Longcroft died on 20 February 1958.
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