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North Irish Horsemen

Shown below are some of the officer and men who served in the North Irish Horse during the Great War.

Served as officers in the North Irish Horse

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Brigadier-General A.A.C. Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury

Hon. Colonel J. Hamilton, Duke of Abercorn

Lieut-Colonel R.A. West

Lieut-Colonel John Henry Michael Cole

Lieut-Colonel Neil Graham Stewart-Richardson

Lieut-Colonel Ronald Deane Ross

Lieut-Colonel R.G.O. Bramston-Newman

Lieut-Colonel Robert David Perceval-Maxwell

Lieut-Colonel Eustace Addison Maude

Lieut-Colonel Viscount Massereene

Lieut-Colonel A.K Maxwell, Lord Farnham

Lieut-Colonel Herbert Shelton Dean

Major David Alfred William Ker

Major (Brevet Lieut-Col.) Harry Arthur Clifton

Major Auston Morgan Rotheram

Major J.A.E. Hamilton, Duke of Abercorn

Major Robert William Hugh O'Neill

Major Emerson Crawford Herdman

Major Valentine George Whitla

Major John Reid Smiley

Major John Grant

Major Thomas William Gillilan Johnson Hughes

Major Arthur Hamilton-Russell

Major Holt Waring

Captain Charles Cockburn D'Arcy Irvine

Captain Robert Soame Jocelyn, 8th Earl of Roden

Captain and Adjutant Thomas Aston

Captain and Quartermaster John E. Pittaway

Captain George W Vesey

Captain J.C.G. Kirkpatrick

Captain Robert Livsey Yates

Captain Anthony Fritz Maude

Captain Richard Reginald Smart

Captain R.A.B. Henry

Captain Thomas Henry Mowbray Leader

Captain Worship Booker

Captain Eustace King-King

Captain Charles Norman

Captain A.E.S. Mulholland

Captain Sir Evelyn De La Rue

Captain Clotworthy Warren Murland

Captain Arthur Noel Vernon Hill-Lowe

Captain Forster Green Uprichard

Captain Thomas Henry Sherlock

Captain John Valentine Adair

Captain Cyril Henry Talbot Wright

Captain James Robert Bargrave Armstrong

Captain Ernest Philip Beresford

Captain Joseph Auber

Veterinary Captain Joseph May Magill

Lieutenant Charles Albert John Oecken

Lieutenant L.C. Wise

Lieutenant James Graham Adam

Lieutenant S.B. Combe

Lieutenant Philip Forsyth-Forrest

Lieutenant Bryant Charles Hamilton

Lieutenant John Hutton Grigg

Lieutenant J.R. Dennistoun

Lieutenant John Frederick Alexander Craig

Lieutenant T.J.E. Forde

Lieutenant Robert James Downey

Lieutenant Norman ffolliott Darling

Lieutenant Thomas Fitzpatrick Cooke

Lieutenant Edward Arthur Atkinson

Lieutenant and Quatermaster T. A. Barns

Lieutenant James Bailey Young

Lieutenant George Bramato Brown

Lieutenant Richard Randall Webb

Lieutenant James Malcolm Wherry

Lieutenant Harold Plumer Kellock

Lieutenant Charles Murray Cramsie

Lieutenant Richard Berry Kellock

Lieutenant Richard Arthur Grove Annesley

Lieutenant William Bates Smyth

Lieutenant Leslie Ion Stuart

Lieutenant Donald O'Neill Hodson

Lieutenant Thos H. Hesketh

Lieutenant Gilbert Hutton Grigg

Lieutenant Benjamin Johnston

Lieutenant William George Eighteen

Quartermaster and Hon Lieut Wolley J Field

2nd Lieutenant Frederick William Conyngham

2nd Lieutenant Folliott Warren Barton

2nd Lieutenant William Porter Archdale

Surgeon-Major Edward Charles Thompson

Hon Chaplain Walter Auchinleck Stack

Commissioned from the ranks of the North Irish Horse and posted to other regiments

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Wing Commander Oswald Gordon Gregson

Wing Commander Arthur Ferguson Ingram

Major Thomas Hay Ritchie Browne

Captain David McCausland

Hon Captain James Randal Beresford Cramsie

Captain Sir Walter Alexander Edmenson

Captain Frederick Rutherford Skillen

Captain Edwin Sinton

Captain Robert Sterling

Captain Ernest George Matthews

Captain Arthur Henry Palethorpe

Lieutenant Robert C. Russell

Lieutenant Alexander Dundee

Lieutenant Charles Vesey Purdon

Lieutenant Robert James Herron

Lieutenant Charles Delmege Trimble

Lieutenant J.A. MacLean

Lieutenant J.K.M. Greer

Lieutenant Raymond Green

Lieutenant Robert Arthur Arland Macready

Lieutenant William Shields

Lieutenant Herbert John Blythe

Lieutenant Gustaf Akerlind

Lieutenant Richard Knox

Lieutenant John Knox

Lieutenant John McKinstry

Lieutenant James Blackburne

Lieutenant Alexander Doveton John Brennan

Lieutenant John Alexander Stuart Harrison

Lieutenant Samuel Simpson Hunter

Lieutenant Henry Albert Whiteside

Lieutenant Samuel William Taylor

Lieutenant Frederick Hill Liken

Lieutenant Henry Alfred Chandler

Lieutenant David Roulston Bates

Lieutenant William Ferguson

Lieutenant James Roy Lindsay Connar

Lieutenant Charles Bothwell Pyper

Lieutenant Frederick Charles Mateer

Lieutenant and Quartermaster F.W.J. Scammell

Lieutenant James Crawford Stewart

Lieutenant Samuel Victor Hood

2nd Lieutenant Samuel Fulton McCreary

2nd Lieutenant T.J. Savage

2nd Lieutenant R.N. Anderson

2nd Lieutenant George Farley

2nd Lieutenant William Moore

2nd Lieutenant Norman Reay

2nd Lieutenant E.M. Meredith

2nd Lieutenant William Lyttle Harcourt

2nd Lieutenant Samuel Linden

2nd Lieutenant James Tennent Smith

2nd Lieut Archibald Moore

2nd Lieutenant J.S.K. Hunter

2nd Lieutenant James Denny

2nd Lieut Robert Victor Lyons

2nd Lieutenant Harold P. Nixon

2nd Lieutenant R.H. Andrews

2nd Lieutenant Abraham Widdess

2nd Lieutenant John Knox

2nd Lieutenant Walter Gamble Hamilton

2nd Lieutenant Cecil Marcus King

2nd Lieutenant William A.M. Buchanan

2nd Lieutenant John Allen French

2nd Lieutenant William Gill Lindsay

2nd Lieutenant R.J. McCullough

2nd Lieutenant Arthur Edwin McMahon

2nd Lieutenant Robert Craigan

2nd Lieutenant Harold Goulburn Shaw

2nd Lieutenant J.W. McVicker

2nd Lieutenant David Miller

2nd Lieutenant Wallace Linton

2nd Lieutenant F.J.E McFarland

2nd Lieutenant John Sydney Copeland

2nd Lieutenant Henry James Armstrong

2nd Lieutenant Stewart Harris Moir

2nd Lieutenant Hugh Alexander Annesley

2nd Lieutenant Archibald McSparron

2nd Lieutenant Clifford Russell Boyd

2nd Lieutenant Henry Ernest Craig

2nd Lieutenant David Kernohan

2nd Lieutenant A. McClelland

2nd Lieutenant James Harvey King

2nd Lieutenant Wilfred Reavie

Other ranks

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Private James Adair

Private Reginald Armstrong

Private William James Acheson

Sergeant John Adams

Lance Corporal Robert Armstrong

Private William Anderson

Corporal David George Armstrong

Sergeant Hugh Ashcroft

Lance Corporal James H Alexander

Private Robert Averell

Private John Adair

Private Clifford B.C. Arnold

Private Thomas Angus

Private Albert Aiken

Private Hugh McMillan Alexander

Corporal James Anderson

Private Thomas Abercrombie

Private Samuel Austin

Private Victor Nelson Bell

Private Alexander Blair

Private William Beattie

Private Herbert Brennan

Corporal Edmond Buchanan

Sergeant Robert Cooke Blair

Warrant Officer Sydney Brunsdon

Sergeant William Browne

Corporal Joseph Smith Bailey

Private Samuel Burnside

Warrant Officer Humphrey Boyd

Private Thomas David Bratty

Corporal Albert Edward Brunsdon

Private John Beggie

Private Edward Frank Brooks

Band Sergeant Frank Allen Brewer

Private Cecil Kenny Brewer

Private Reginald Kenny Brewer

Private Robert T. Birnie

Private William Harris Boyd

Shoeing Smith Corporal Thomas Bailey

Private David Hunter Bond

Private William Andrew Bamford

Private William Blakes

Private Charles Bell

Private Emmanuel (Mandey) Berwitz

Private Robert Beckett

Private Robert Bagshaw

Private John Berry

Rifleman John Balfour

Private Henry Booth

Corporal Brennan

Private George Alexander Brown

Private William Brennan

SSM Robert James Blakely

Private Alexander Ballam

Private Joseph Buick

Lance Corporal Robert William Brooks

Private Louis Ball

Private Joseph Bingham

Lance Corporal Thomas George Beattie

Private Joseph Knox Bailie

Private William Boyle

Private Robert Burke

Private William Burke

Private Thomas Burrows

Private Samuel Black

Private Frederick St G. Cooke

Private Samuel Cosgrove

Private John Cully

Private William Maxted Coltart

Corporal William Percival Cowan

Private Jospeh Close

Sergeant James Coburn

Private Thomas Clarke

Corporal James Cunning

Lance Corporal David Connolly

Sergeant Andrew Colquhoun

Private Francis Colquhoun

SQMS Joseph Chambers

Private Frederick Carlisle

Sergeant John Willaim Clancy

Corporal Robert James Corry

Lance Corporal John Conway

Private William John Cherrie

Corporal John St Claire Clarke

Sergeant Thomas James Cairns

Private Thomas Chambers

Trumpeter James Craig

Private John Cowell

Private Alexander Chestnut

Private Ezekiel Boyd Chestnut

Private James Crothers

Private Thomas William Collins

Private Garnet Wesley Cornwell

Lance Corporal William John Craig

Lance Corporal George Joseph Carberry

Corporal Albert Victor Dunseith

Private George Dodds

Sergeant Reuben B Dickson

Lance Corporal Albert Dundee

Lance Corporal Robert Dundee

Lance Corporal James Davis

Private Wilson Donaghy

Lance Corporal James Alexander Dickson

Lance Corporal Edward Deane

Lance Corporal James Davison

Private Charles Elder

SSM Frederick James Emby

Lance Corporal Herbert Eakin

Lance Corporal Charles Essery

Private William English

Private Patrick Maybin Esler

Private Hugh Dixon

Private William James Finlay

Lance Corporal Hugh Flanagan

Sergeant John James Foster

Private Thomas Foreman

Corporal Thomas Foster

RQMS Samuel Fawcett

Sergeant James Ferris

Private Wesley Freeland

Corporal Joseph William Fisher

SSM Edward Farren Fryer

Lance Corporal George Frederick Sexton Finch

Lance Corporal Frederick David William Ferguson

Private George Gill

Private George Galbraith

Lance Corporal William Govan

Private Houston Graham

Private Albert Brice Galway

Private Joseph Gibson

Private Albert Garnett

Private John Gillespie

Private John Quee Graham

Farrier Sergeant Ernest Gilliland

Sergeant Robert J Green

Sergeant T.R. Gordon

Lance Corporal John Gracey

Private William John Green

Saddler Sergeant Thomas Graham

Private John S. Grant

Private Alexander Robert Gilliland

Private James Greene

Lance Sgt George Adams Henry

Private Matthew Haggan

Rifleman Thomas Hall

Private William Samuel Hamilton

Sergeant Andrew Ellison Hatrick

Warrant Officer Francis R Harding

Corporal John Heenan

Corporal Robert James Hassard

Sergeant David Hanley

Private William James Hughan

Private Hugh Higgins

Lance Corporal Samuel Houston

Private George Harris

Private Nathaniel Harvey

Lance Corporal William J. Hutchinson

Lance Corporal George Honer

Private William Holmes

Private John Thomas Howe

Private Robert Houston

Corporal Richard Hoy

Private Alfred Holden

Private Joseph Henry

Private Hamilton Thomas Hutchinson

Private John Hogg

Private Thomas Andrew Harrison

Sergeant Archy Hartin

Private Robert Coleman Herbison

Corporal Richard Ernest McLaughlin Hamilton

Private Eugene Jerome Harrington

Lance Corporal Thomas John Halliday

Lance Corporal Joseph Huggins

Sergeant Richard Irwin

Sergeant Robert Irwin

Private Hiram Irwin

Private John Irwin

Warrant Officer Sidney Jackson

Private Robert Johnston

Private Herbert Alexander Jones

Private George Uriah Johnston

Private Matthew Jackson

Sergeant Thomas Jamison

Private Robert Jamison

Corporal William James Johnston

Corporal Terence Clement Jones

Private William Jordan

Private David James Johnston

Private William Johnston

Lance Corporal William Frederick Jackson

Private James Kelly

Private John D. King

Shoeing Smith William J Knox

Private Frederick Knox

Sergeant William Kirkpatrick

Lance Corporal William Alexander Kelly

Private Alfred Ernest Karr

Private Johnston Kyle

Farrier David Kelly

Private Richard Kelly

Farrier Sergeant Alexander Kennedy

Corporal Robert Kinnear

Private John Nesbitt Kerr

Corporal Francis Kidd

Private Henry Franklin Kelly

Lance Corporal William Leckey

Private Thomas Lyons

Rifleman Edward Lennox

Shoeing Smith Robert Lowry

Corporal John Leyburn

Private James Lynn

Private William Lipsett

Lance Corporal John Thomas Lockhart

Private J. A. Laughlin

Private David Law

Corporal James Ingram Leyburn

Warrant Officer William Loughran

Corporal Frederick J. Lindsay

Sergeant William Ewart Gladstone Lockhart

Lance Corporal Hugh Lusk

Private Archibald Laird

Private Thomas Lyons

Private George Alexander Lewis

Lance Corporal Percy William Larkin

Private Thomas Luck

Corporal Thomas McCormick

Private Thomas A. McReynolds

Private Frederick McConnell

Rifleman Thomas McKillop

Private William J. McAuley

CQMS Francis Joseph McMahon

Private Michael John McGuigan

Private William McStay

Private Joseph McSweeney

Private James McBride

Lance Corporal Isaac McDowell

Private Herbert McKimmon

Private Joseph McIntyre Macauley

Signaller A. McKenzie

Private Alexander McLellan

Lance Corporal William McCalmont

Private David McCormick

Sergeant John Alexander McMaster

Colour Sergeant James Alexander McIlroy

Trumpeter Thomas Owen McVeigh

Lance Corporal John Harris McClinton

Private William Andrew McClinton

Private John Andrew McNutt

Private John McFetridge

Private Hubert McManus

Private George McFadden

Private James McKee

Private George McLorn

Private William McCarley

Sergeant Alexander Weir McKinley

Sergeant Samuel McClements

Farrier-Sergeant William James McMichael

Lance Corporal Robert Lavery McCullough

Private Francis McCaugherty

Lance Corporal Hamilton McClay

Squadron Sergeant-Major Frederick McMahon

Private William Victor McKee

Private John Henry McCullagh

Private Gordon Lyle McCotter

Private Benjamin Moore McCullagh

Corporal Hugh Macauley

Private William Anderson McAllister

Private John McCartney

Private Hugh McCahon

Private William McGeown

Private Patrick McCloskey

Private James Magill

Private Cyril A Morrison

Private Alexander Martin

Private George T. Murray

Private Robert G.D. Montgomery

Private William Mills

Sergeant William Martin

Private Charles Magill

Private Thomas James Marshall

Sergeant Thomas Henry Metcalfe

Private Henry Francis Murphy

Lance Corporal Thomas Mooney

Warrant Officer Robert Matchett

FQMS James Mooney

Corporal George Carse Marsden

Private James Majury

Private Jack Mitchell

Private William Joseph Matchett

Private William Millikin

Private Harry Mercer

Private William Herbert Moisley

Sergeant John Montford

Sergeant Thomas McAra Majury

Private Robert John Mehaffey

Warrant Officer Frank Albert Mells

Sergeant Trumpeter Michael Madden

Private Samuel Russell Millar

Corporal Samuel Melville

Private James Booth Marks

Private Richard Malcomson

Private Archibald James Moss

Shoeing Smith Robert Magee

Sergeant William Herbert Martin

Sergeant Samuel Robert Magovern

Private Richard Moore

Sapper Robert William Nesbitt

Private James Nesbitt

FQMS Hugh Copeland Nixon

Private John Nixon

Private John O'Prey

Lance Corporal William O'Prey

Private Stafford Woods O'Neill

William Bell O'Donoghue

Private Thomas Francis Owens

Private Andrew O'Neill

Private William Joseph Petty

Private Robert Park

Sergeant Thomas Pyper

Private John Edward Riddell

Private Robert Ross

Corporal Hubert Roe

Lance Corporal W.J. Robinson

Private David H. Ransom

Corporal David William Ritchie

Private James Rainey

Lance Corporal Victor Ronaldson

Private John Alexander Ross

Private Gordon Richardson

Private Thomas McCready Ross

Private William John Richmond

Private Albert Richard Ryan

Private George Henry Reilly

Private James Irvine Reynolds

Lance Corporal James Lockhart Russell

Private George Russell

Private William Rooney

Lance Corporal John Rea

Private Johnston Robinson

Private John Reid

Lance Sergeant Albert Rowe

Saddler Sergeant George Charles Ramage

Private George Victor Ross

Private William Thomas Roulston

Private Samuel Ritchie

Private Samuel Reid

Private John Smyth

Private George M. Shannon

Private James Sleator

Lance Corporal Fred Scanlon

Rifleman Ernest A. Stevenson

Private John Scott

Corporal William Stevenson

Private George Stewart

Private James Smiton

Corporal R. Storey

Private Hamilton (Hammie) Stewart

Corporal W. Scott

Private Henry Simms

RSM William Alderton Sewell

SQMS William Stewart Smyth

Private Horace Sewell

Sergeant Richard Stewart

Corporal Robert Cromie Stewart

Sergeant John Cromie Patterson Stewart

Private William Brian Simonton

Farrier-Sergeant Walter Cooper Sheridan

Private George Fleming Scarlett

Private John Smith

Private Robert Henry Sterling

Sergeant David Sterritt

Sergeant Sutton

Lance Corporal Wilfred Sloan

Private John Otter Stroyan

Corporal Alexander Lyons Smyth

Private Thomas Service

Private Arthur Joseph Smith

Private Thomas Stewart

Private John Philip Sheehan

Private Samuel Skelton

Private William Thomson

Lance Corporal S.L. Turner

Private Clement Douglas Turner

Private William F. Timbey

Private Brownlow Thompson

Private David Toomath

Private Robert Thomson

Private Cyril William Taylor

Sergeant Horace Thompson

Corporal John Wesley Teer

Squadron Sergeant-Major George Towner

Sergeant Joseph Thompson

Private John James Thompson

RQMS John Stanley Tucker

Private Sampson Trotter

Corporal Thomas Timmins

Private Alfred Raymond Vaughan

Private Joseph Ernest Vize

Corporal Walter Ernest Vaughan

Private Charles R. Woodside

Private Thomas Wright

Sergeant Robert A. Wylie

Private Maurice G Wheelhouse

Private James Wilson

Corporal John Wright

Private Clarence Wilson

Private Robert Watson

Private William Watt

Sergeant W. Walker

Private Jack Warnock

Private William (or Matthew) Woods

Warrant Officer John Whiteside

Lance Corporal James Freeborn Wray

Private Isaac Walker

Private Thomas Watson

Lance Corporal Thomas Welton

Private William M. Whitehead

Private Charles Watson

Private Robert William Wells

Private Richard Alexander Wallace

Private Donald McFarlane Wallace

Private George William Watt

Private Ernest Webb

Bandmaster Richard Ernest Wade

Private Hugh Young

Other ranks - unidentified

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Group photographs

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F Squadron

"Chums at the front"

Recruits, 1914

NCOs, 1914

Watering the horses

No.2 Troop, Antrim

Signallers, 1916

Antrim group, 1915

"On guard in France"

E Squadron in France

D Squadron Sergeants, 1915

"Belfast chums"

NCOs in France, 1917

Wounded North Irish Horsemen

"A camp fire in Belgium"

On manoeuvres

Antrim, 1915

H Squadron

Annual dance, 1917

A Squadron NCOs in France, 1914

On exercises at Antrim 1915

Bare-back wrestling

Ballymena Show

Big run on horses

No.10 Hut, Antrim Camp

Antrim group

Postcard from France

Dacey the terrier

Veterans on the Somme

'Some N.I.H. Boys'