Corporal Samuel Fyfe
Samuel Fyfe was born on 26 November 1881 at Brankill, Arvagh, County Cavan, the second of eight children of farmer George Fyfe and his wife Margaret Jane (nee Morton). He also had two half-brothers from his father's previous marriage. By 1911 he was living at Brankill with his parents and three siblings and working as a rural postman.
Fyfe enlisted in the North Irish Horse on 3 March 1910 (No.472 – later Corps of Hussars No.71028). He embarked for France with A Squadron on 17 August 1914, seeing action on the retreat from Mons and advance to the Aisne.
He returned to Ireland at some point in the next 12 months, for on 7 August 1915 he married school mistress Edith Higginson of Derrylane, Arvagh, at St Mary's Parish Church in Dublin City.
Later he returned to France, where he was posted to A, D or E Squadron of the newly-formed 1st North Irish Horse Regiment. In March-April 1918 the regiment was dismounted and converted to a cyclist unit, serving as corps cyclists to V Corps until the end of the war.
Fyfe was wounded in August or September 1918 during the initial phase of the Advance to Victory offensive.
On 21 January 1919 he was discharged under Paragraph 392 (xvi) of King's Regulations, being no longer physically fit for military service. He was suffering from neurasthenia (shell shock).
By 1956 Fyfe was living at 43 Voltaire Gardens, Belfast, and working as a coppersmith's helper. He died there in 26 May 1956.