Corporal Robert M.C. Kinnear
Corporal Robert Kinnear, Service No.617, of Kildowney, Glarryford, County Antrim. Kinnear enlisted with the North Irish Horse on 5 June 1911, aged 18, and embarked for France with A Squadron on 17 August 1914. Kinnear sustained a bullet wound in his left foot and was sent to hospital at Bolougne on 2 December 1914. After time at home recovering from his wound, he returned to France on 8 February 1915. On 27 April 1915 he was awarded 7 days Field Punishment No.2 for 'Leaving his horse ungroomed'; on 6 December 1915 he was confined to barracks for 10 days for 'disobedience of orders'; and on 23 April 1916 he was awarded 7 days Field Punishment No.1 for being 'Absent from Roll Call 8.30pm to 9.20pm'. Kinnear was discharged from the Army, 'time expired', on 4 June 1916.
Irish Times, 8 February 1915
This image of Robert Kinnear, from the Ballymena Observer, is kindly made available thanks to Des Blackadder, from his site Ballymena 1914-1918: Carved in stone...but not forgotten.