Private Robert John Jennings
The only evidence of this man's military service discovered to date is contained in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland's Roll of Honour, which states that he served as a private in the North Irish Horse, lived at 17 Dublin Street, Dundalk, County Louth, and worshipped in the Dundalk Congregation of the Presbyterian Church.
Robert John Jennings was born on 29 October 1899 at South Mary Street, Dundalk, the fifth of seventeen children of cooper William Jennings and his wife Rose Ann (née Warren). By the time of the 1911 Census he was living at 17 Dublin Street with his parents and his seven surviving siblings (another five would be born over the next eight years).
The date of Jennings' enlistment in the North Irish Horse is not known at present. Nor is his regimental number. Given his age, however, he probably joined in late 1917 or during 1918. He would have trained at the regiment's Antrim reserve camp before being demobilised in 1919.
Two of Jennings' brothers also served in the war, John in the Royal Field Artillery and William in the Royal Navy.