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Captain Richard Alexander Baillie Henry (or Filgate)

 

 

Captain Henry arrived in France on 16 July 1915, where he joined C Squadron of the North Irish Horse. He left the Regiment on 7 April 1917 when he and three other officers were posted to road control squadrons in the 1st and 3rd Armies. Henry was seconded to the Military Police on 17 October 1917, where he was put in command of a prisoner of war company. He resigned his commission on 28 March 1918. There are a number of references to Captain Henry in the war diaries of C Squadron and the 2nd Regiment North Irish Horse, including this from 9 September 1916:

There was a Regimental race meeting at Contay and Captain Henry of B Squadron had a horse entered in 'The New Derby' so a good many of the Regiment rode over to the meeting. Unfortunately 2nd Lieutenant Smart who rode the horse made a mistake and rode the wrong course after he practically had won.

 

 

Captain Henry's brother, Lieutenant Robert Clive Bolton Henry of the 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers (image below), had been killed in action on 15 December 1899 at Colenso during the Boer War.

 

Note: Captain Henry had attended Victoria College, Jersey, from 1887-92. He assumed the surname Filgate in 1917, in compliance with the will of his father-in-law.

Image 1 kindly provided by Mrs Sarah Angel of Kilcock, Co Kildare, via Barrie H Bertram and his Channel Islands Great War Study Group website www.greatwarci.net. Image 2 and press clipping from Belfast Evening Telegraph kindly provided by Nigel Henderson (see Fitzroy Presbyterian Church: Wartime Service and Sacrifice). Image of Lieutenant C.B. Henry sourced from The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War, by Cecil Francis Romer and Arthur Edward Mainwaring, via Barrie Bertram.