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Private Cecil Brewer

 

 

Private Cecil Brewer of 21 Chambers Street, Belfast, North Irish Horse Service No.837. Brewer enlisted with the Horse in April 1913. He embarked for France with C Squadron on 20 August 1914 and was subsequently wounded. In June 1916 he joined the 2nd North Irish Horse Regiment when C and F Squadrons and the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons (Service) Squadron were brought together. He became an infantryman (No.41272) when the Regiment was dismounted and joined the 9th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers.

Image, from Belfast Evening Telegraph, kindly provided by Nigel Henderson (see Fitzroy Presbyterian Church: Wartime Service and Sacrifice).