Private Charles Dwyer
Charles Dwyer was born on 31 May 1900 at 28 Belmont Avenue West, Belfast, the last of four children of Royal Irish Constabulary sergeant Patrick Dwyer and his wife Martha Jane (née Twamley or Turnley). At the time of the 1911 Census he was living at Belmont Avenue West with his parents and his two surviving siblings. His father died three years later.
Dwyer enlisted in the North Irish Horse between 29 January and 12 April 1917 (Regimental number between 2388 and 2393 – later Corps of Hussars No.71795).
He trained at the regiment's Antrim reserve camp before embarking for France in 1917 or 1918. There 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.
On 8 March 1919 Dwyer was demobilised and transferred to Class Z, Army Reserve.
Soon after the war he was living at Mill View, Aughnacloy, County Tyrone. He later moved to England with his wife Adina Eileen. At the time of the 1939 Register they were living at 8 Cross Way, Lewes, Sussex, with two children, Charles working as a telephone and telegraph fitter in the Post Office Engineering Department. He died in the Victoria Hospital, Lewes, on 10 February 1960.
Sussex Agricultural Express, 19 February 1960