North Irish Horse - Gallery

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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Lieut-Colonel R.A. West VC

Major Arthur Kenlis Maxwell, Lord Farnham

Major Holt Waring

Major E.C. Herdman

Major A.W.J.C. Visc Massereene & Ferrard

Captain R.A.B. Henry

Capt C.B. Despard DSO MC

Captain Warren Murland

Captain Robert Sterling

Catain and Quartermaster John E Pittaway

Lieutenant S.B. Combe

Lieutenant J.K.M. Greer MC

Lieutenant J.R. Dennistoun

Lieutenant William Bates Smyth

Lieutenant John Hutton Grigg

Lieutenant Arthur Ferguson Ingram

Lieutenant Bryant Charles Hamilton

Lieutenant and Quartermaster F.W.J. Scammell

2nd Lieutenant R.N. Anderson

2nd Lieutenant James Bailey Young

2nd Lieutenant Raymond Green

2nd Lieutenant T.J. Savage

2nd Lieutenant E.M. Meredith

2nd Lieutenant Frederick Rutherford Skillen

Other ranks - studio and other portrait images

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Sergeant William Lockhart

Sergeant Richard Irwin

Lance Corporal William Leckey

Private Francis Joseph MacMahon

Corporal Francis Joseph MacMahon

Lance Corporal Honer and Private Brennan

Private John Smyth

Private Hamilton (Hammie) Stewart

Private John Gillespie

Private William Holmes

Private James Wilson

Private Charles Magill

Private Clement Douglas Turner

Private Sampson Trotter

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 Charles Bell

Lance Corporal S.L. Turner

Corporal John Wright

Private Samuel Cosgrove

Private Emmanuel (Mandey) Berwitz

Private Francis Colquhoun

Private William Watt

Private Cecil Brewer

Private William Acheson

Saddler Robert J Hassard

North Irish Horseman

Ballyshannon Private

Lance Corporal

Private William Joseph Matchett

Lance Corporal William Alexander Kelly

Lance Corporal William J. Hutchinson

Private Robert Watson

Farrier Sergeant Alexander Kennedy

Corporal R. Storey

Corporal Edward Deane

Corporal Frederick J. Lindsay

Private James Nesbitt

Private Stewart Harris Moir

Private Albert Garnett

Private Samuel Black

Private William McStay

Private Joseph Close

Private Reginald Armstrong

Private Aubrey Morrison

Warrant Officer William Loughran

Three Foster brothers

Private Robert Jamison

Signaller A. McKenzie

Private Alexander McLellan

Private Robert T. Birnie

Leyburn brothers

Private Nathaniel Harvey

Private Joseph Gibson

Private Thomas Angus

Private Clarence Wilson

Corporal Albert Brunsdon

Private David Law

Private Robert Thomson

Private James Smiton

Private George M. Shannon

Private Thomas Foreman

Private James McKee

Private Henry Simms

Private William Joseph Petty

Sergeant Thomas Jamison MM

Corporal W. Scott

Private George McLorn

Lance Corporal David Connolly

Private Clifford B.C. Arnold

Private Charles R. Woodside

Lance Corporal Harold Irvine

Private George Gill

Private James Majury

Private George McFadden

Private George Harris

Private John Adair

Corporal Joseph Smith Bailey MM

Sergeant William Browne MM

Private Samuel Reid

Corporal James Cunning

Private Alfred Ernest Karr

RSM William A Sewell

Private Robert Ross

Private Charles Elder

Private James Sleator

Sapper Robert William Nesbitt

Private Alexander Martin

Private Matthew Haggan

Lance Sgt George Adams Henry

Private Thomas A. McReynolds

Private James Rainey

Private Jack Mitchell

Private Matthew Jackson

Private Maurice G Wheelhouse

Private J. Lenaghan

Private William T. Elliott

Private Leonard Downes

Private J.A. Laughlin

Private David Toomath

Mounted images

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Private William Lipsett

SQMS R.J. Downey

Lance Corporal Arthur McMahon

Private Francis Joseph MacMahon

Private William Andrew Bamford

Corporal Robert Noel Anderson

Lance Corporal

North Irish Horseman

Lance Sergeant George Adams Henry MM

R. Corry and Thomas Wilton in Egypt

Private James McKee

Lieutenant John Hutton Grigg

Group photographs

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F Squadron

North Irish Horse group

Recruits, 1914

NCOs, 1914

Watering the horses

No.2 Troop, Antrim

Signallers, 1916

Belfast group, 1915

Dundee brothers

Egypt group

Private James Lynn and family

Chums at the front: Howe, Crawford and Wylie

Belfast chums: Donaghy, Berwitz, Nixon, McClements

Inniskilling Dragoons: Officers and NCOs

On guard in France

E Squadron in France

D Squadron Sergeants, 1915

Private James McKee: On parade

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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Group of nine

Recruits

Mounted

Group with truck

Group of ten in France

A Squadron in France, 1917

George Dodds

Group

North Irish Horse in Egypt

Group

Dervock collection

My sincere thanks to Frank McLernon of Dervock, County Antrim, who has generously provided some very interesting North Irish Horse and North of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry pictures.

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Sergeant Reid

Antrim, 1915

Parade at the Curragh, 1907

Private Robert Johnston

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.