North Irish Horse - Gallery - North Irish Horsemen

North Irish Horsemen

Shown below are some of the men who served in the North Irish Horse during the First World War.

Officers

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	Lt-Col. R.A. West VC DSO & Bar MC		Major Lord Farnham		Major Holt Waring		Major E.C. Herdman		Captain Warren Murland


	Captain R.A.B. Henry		Lieutenant J.K.M. Greer MC		Lieutenant James Robert Dennistoun		Lieutenant William Bates Smyth		Lieutenant Bryant Charles Hamilton


	Lieutenant Samuel Barbour Combe		2nd Lieutenant Raymond Green

Other Ranks - Studio and other portrait images

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Sergeant William Lockhart		Sergeant Richard Irwin		Lance Corporal William Leckey		Unidentified Lance Corporal (1)		Unidentified Lance Corporal (2)


Private Francis Joseph MacMahon		Corporal Francis Joseph MacMahon		Lance Corporal Honer and Private Brennan		Saddler Robert J Hassard		Private John Smyth


Private Hamilton (Hammie) Stewart		Ballyshannon Private		Private John Gillespie		Private William Holmes		Private James Wilson


Private Charles Magill		Private Clement Douglas Turner		Private Sampson Trotter		Unidentified North Irish Horseman		Private Victor Nelson Bell


Private John Edward Riddell		Private William Biggart		Private Alexander Blair		Private James Magill		Private William Thomson


Private William James Finlay		Private David Hunter Bond		Private Thomas Wright		Private John Nesbitt Kerr		Private Ross and Lance Corporal McCalmont


Corporal William Stevenson MM		Private William Andrew Bamford		Sergeant John Montford		Corporal Robert Kinnear		Private William Blakes


Private Samuel Cosgrove		Private William Acheson


Private William Lipsett		SQMS R.J. Downey		Lance Corporal Arthur McMahon		Private Francis Joseph MacMahon


Horseman		Unidentified Lance Corporal		Private William Andrew Bamford		Corporal (later 2nd Lieut) Robert Noel Anderson

Group photographs

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F Squadron		Unidentified North Irish Horse group		1914 recruits		NCO group, 1914


Watering the horses		No.2 Troop, Antrim		Signallers, 1916		Belfast group, 1915


Dundee brothers		Egypt group		Private James Lynn and family

George Dodds collection

I am grateful to David Dodds of Newry for his great kindness in agreeing that I reproduce these wonderfully evocative pictures of Private George Dodds and his fellow North Irish Horsemen, taken before and during the War . Private Dodds (Service No.865) joined the North Irish Horse between August and October 1913. On the outbreak of war he went to France with A Squadron, arriving there on 17 August 1914. He later served with the 1st Regiment North Irish Horse.

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Dervock collection

My sincere thanks to Frank McLernon of Dervock, County Antrim, who has generously provided six very interesting North Irish Horse pictures, including one of a parade of the Horse at the Curragh Camp in 1921.

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Sergeant Reid	Private Robert Johnston	Antrim, 1915	Parade at Curragh Camp, 1921

William Buchanan collection

The images below show William Alexander McKemie Buchanan (Service No.1286), who enlisted with the North Irish Horse on 7 October 1914. Buchanan was from Burt in County Donegal. He soon rose to the rank of Corporal and embarked for France early in 1916 (either with E Squadron or as a reinforcement). Wounded at the Somme on 1 July 1916, Buchanan spent some time recuperating at home. On 30 April 1918 he was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the Leinster Regiment. Four of William's six brothers served in the War. Stewart Buchanan of the 11th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was killed on the Somme on 1 July 1916, and John Buchanan of the 49th Battalion Canadian Infantry died of pneumonia in Belgium on 4 December 1918. After the War William Buchanan emigrated to Canada - in 1923 he was living at 208 Union Street, Vancouver - and the US. In 1928 he returned to farm his uncle's property at Bridgetown in the parish of Burt. He died in 1977.

I am most grateful to James Buchanan, William's second son, for allowing me to reproduce these wonderful images.

William Buchanan's recruiting certificate can be seen by clicking here.

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