Private Victor E. Argue
The background of this North Irish Horseman is not clear. However he may have been the Victor George Argue born (as Claude Edwin) on 18 July 1897 at Lifford, Castlefin, County Donegal, the fourth of six children of RIC constable Henry Argue and his wife Henrietta (née Neely). By the time of the 1911 Census he was living at Lifford with his parents and siblings.
Argue enlisted in the North Irish Horse between 13 and 15 November 1915 (No.1861 – later Corps of Hussars No.71598). 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.
The 1st NIH Regiment served as corps cavalry to VII, XIX, then V Corps from its formation in May 1916 until February-March 1918, when the regiment was dismounted and converted to a cyclist unit, serving as corps cyclists to V Corps until the end of the war.
Argue remained with the regiment throughout the war, though how much time he spent in France and Belgium and how much at the Antrim reserve camp is not known at present.
On 18 March 1919 he was demobilised and transferred to Class Z, Army Reserve.