Roll call

 

Horsemen who transferred to the Tank Corps

 

 

During the war more than sixty officers and men of the North Irish Horse served in the Tank Corps or its predecessor, the Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Branch). Their names are listed below.

 

JOINED THE TANK CORPS AS OFFICERS
Name Date joined
Maude, Eustace Anthony Whaley
8 December 1916
Mitchell, John Samuel 30 January 1917
Leader, Thomas Henry Mowbray November and December 1917, from the 9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers
Whalen, Frederick Joseph
Larter, Charles Brunskill
Poole, Frank Tarbett
Garnham, George
Bayliff, Gabriel Thomas Lane
West, Richard Annesley 26 December 1917
Connar, Henry Percy 27 December 1917
Armstrong, James Robert Bargrave
19 October 1918

 

JOINED THE TANK CORPS AS OTHER RANKS
Name NIH number Tank Corps number Date joined Additional information
Freeland, Wesley 1571 76332
1 March 1917
 
Akerlind, Gustaf William 1079 76333
1 March 1917
 
Mitchell, Alexander Gordon 1068 77144
23 March 1917
Central Works
Menice, Edward James 996 77146
23 March 1917
 
Worth, William Robert 1452 77167
23 March 1917
 
Despard, Richard   112193
7 August 1917
K Battalion
Irwin, Robert 988 304845
28 December 1917, from the 9th (North Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers
18th Battalion
Cassidy, Robert 1002 304846 15th Battalion
Roulston, William 1153 304847 17th Battalion, then 11th Battalion
Moran, Richard 2091 304849  
Hall, Robert 171(UD) 304851 5th Battalion
Burke, William 2310 304852 17th Battalion
Whiteside, James Bryson 1568 304854 17th Battalion
Kerr, William 924 304863 17th Battalion
Cochrane, George 1847 304864 17th Battalion
Magill, Charles 2043 304865 17th Battalion
Flanagan, Richard 280(UD) 304866 17th Battalion
Shaw, Joseph 1425 304867 14th Battalion
McDowell, William Frederick 1164 304868 17th Battalion
Crooks, William 782 304869 15th Battalion
Seaman, Robert John 1416 304870 15th Battalion
Martin, William 814 304871 15th Battalion
Averell, Robert 485 304872 15th Battalion
Averell, Andrew 2046 304875 15th Battalion
Tobin, Peter 1221 304876 15th Battalion
Chestnut, Thomas 1632 304877  
Lucas, Joseph 1364 304878  
Warwick, John Alexander 1947 304879 15th Battalion
Buchanan, James Allen 868 304880 15th Battalion
Wilson, Ernest 2314 304882 15th Battalion
Bell, Edwin Victor 1726 304883 1st Battalion
Millar, James Hamilton Johnston 1396 304898 11th Battalion
Alexander, James Harold 1281 305502
7 January 1918, from the 1st North Irish Horse Regiment
 
McDowell, William John 1064 305503 7th Battalion
Cowell, John William Richardson 1554 305504  
Gilmore, Charles 1665 305505 3rd Battalion
Hanlon, William John 1496 305506  
Phillips, Samuel 1025 305507 2nd Battalion
Sloan, Wilfred 1168 305508  
Watt, William 1001 305509 12th Battalion
Donnelly, William John 1543 305510 7th Battalion. Killed in action 13 April 1918
Cooke, William Kyle 1926 305511 9th Battalion
Davenport, Ernest 2718 305512 5th Battalion
Wilcox, Reginald John 2732 305513 1st Battalion
Batham, James Peter 2713 305514 1st Battalion
Marles, Harold 2727 305667
7-21 January 1918
2nd Battalion
Cleland, William James 1158 305668  
Gray, Harry 1024 307580
21 January 1918
 
Harrison, James 2259 309002
February-March 1918
 
Abery, Henry Charles 703 303029
October 1918
 
McAnuff, Robert 2028 318259
13 November 1918