Private Edward Gordon
Edward Gordon (originally named Adam Gordon) was born on 4 May 1896 at Tullynamalogue, Keady, County Armagh, the first of three children of farmer Andrew Gordon and his wife Agnes (née Morrison). His father died when Edward was just eight years old. By the time of the 1911 Census he was living at Andraid, Drumanaway, County Antrim, with his maternal grandmother, two uncles and an aunt, and his two sisters.
Gordon enlisted in the North Irish Horse between 2 and 4 November 1915 (No.1781 – later Corps of Hussars 71556). He trained at the regiment's Antrim reserve camp before embarking for France sometime between 1916 and 1918, where he was posted to one of the squadrons of the 1st North Irish Horse Regiment. This regiment served as corps cavalry to VII, XIX, then V Corps from its establishment in May 1916 until February-March 1918, when it was dismounted and converted to a cyclist unit, serving as corps cyclists to V Corps until the end of the war.
Gordon remained with the regiment throughout the war. On 3 March 1919 he was demobilised and transferred to Class Z, Army Reserve.
After the war he lived at Randalstown, working as a paper hanger. He later emigrated to the United States.