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Corporal Frederick J. Lindsay

 

 

Corporal Lindsay (Service No.753) enlisted in the North Irish Horse between October and December 1912. He embarked for France with C Squadron on 20 August 1914. He later transferred to the Army Service Corps (No. T/40579). The above image from the Belfast Evening Telegraph was accompanied by the following article recounting some of the fighting in the early months of the war.

NORTH IRISH HORSE.
SOME THRILLING TALES.
FIGHTING THE UHLAN RAIDERS.

Corporal Fed Lindsay, of No. 4 Troop, North Irish Horse, spending a few days’ leave at his home in Islandbawn, near Castledawson, relates some interesting particulars of his six months’ experience of war. No. 4 Troop first went into action near St. Quentin during the retreat from Mons. In this rearguard action Trooper Moirs, of Belfast, and a comrade, were captured by Uhlans, and re-captured later by the Suffolks, who made prisoners of the troopers’ erstwhile captors.
On another occasion Trooper Ellison, also of Belfast, rode by mistake into a Uhlan camp, but happily for him the night was so dark that he had discovered his mistake before he was recognised, and was almost clear of the camp again before the Uhlans were aware that he was not one of themselves. Just as he came to the high wire fence surrounding the camp one of the Uhlans struck a match to light his pipe, and Ellison stood revealed. Putting spurs to his horse, he attempted to jump the fence, but his mount baulked and threw him over its head into a drain on the outside. Amid a hail of bullets Ellison managed to run along the drain and escape in safety to the high road.

 

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