6th Inniskilling Dragoons (Service Squadron)

In memoriam

Casualties

WHETHER WE LIVE OR DIE WE ARE THE LORDS........WE CANNOT LORD THY PURPOSE SEE, BUT ALL IS WELL THAT'S DONE BY THEE........THY WILL BE DONE........FONDLY REMEMBERED BY HIS LOVING MOTHER........ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM & MARGARET MC CORMICK, BOTH OF BELFAST

This page shows the names of the officers and men of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons Service Squadron who died during the war, or shortly after as a consequence of their war service. Most died while serving with the 9th (North Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers.

The words scrolling above are the personal inscriptions placed on the gravestones by their families.

Chronological list

1916
Date	Name and rank	Unit	How died	Buried/ commemorated
July 3	Private Alexander Watt	6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons Service Squadron	Killed in action	Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 1A.
December 24	Private John McClelland Cromie Darragh	6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons	Self-inflicted wound	St Riquier British Cemetery, Somme, France, grave C.8.
1917
Date	Name and rank	Unit	How died	Buried/ commemorated
March 20	2nd Lieutenant Matthew Sloan Darragh	West Riding Regiment	Killed in action	Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Panel 68
September 20	Private Thomas Joughin	Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry)	Killed in action	Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 159
October 26	Private George Christopher Reid	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Neuville-Bourjonval British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France, grave E.18
November 23	Private Christopher McWilliams	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord, France, Panel 10
	Private Henry Orr	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord, France, Panel 10
	Private Samuel Price	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord, France, Panel 10
	Private William James Turkington	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord, France, Panel 10
1918
Date	Name and rank	Unit	How died	Buried/ commemorated
February 11	Private John Johnston	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Died of wounds	Grand-Seraucourt British Cemetery, Aisne, France, grave V.G.4
February 24	Private Samuel Devine	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Died of wounds and tuberculosis	Gloucester Old Cemetery, England, grave NG.249
March 25	Private James Frazer Johnston	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Died of wounds	Roye New British Cemetery, Somme, France, grave IV.B.3
March 21-27	Private Mark Lee	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France, Panel 77
April 14	Private Robert Irwin	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 141
April 15	Lance Corporal Randal Edmund McManus	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 140
April 9-18	Private William Thomas Elliott	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 141
April 9-18	Private Richard William Megahey	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 141
April 18	Captain Charles Beauclerk Despard	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 3
April 18	Private William Lindsay	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 141
April 22	Private George Morrison	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Died of wounds while prisoner of war	Hautmont Communal Cemetery, Nord, France, grave I.A.20
May 25	Private Francis James Morrison	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Died of wounds	Gwalia Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlanderen, Belgium, grave II.E.29
July 2	Private Hugh Potter	6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons Service Squadron	Tuberculosis	Brookwood 1914-1918 Memorial, England, Panel 9.
July 4	Private David John McCarron	6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons Service Squadron	Heart disease	Belfast (Dundonald) Cemetery, grave F.5 39.
July 22	Private John Nicholl	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Died while prisoner of war	Hautmont Communal Cemetery, Nord, France, grave V.B.10
August 26	Sergeant William Garnett Wolsley Irwin	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Died of wounds	Arneke British Cemetery, Nord, France, grave III.D.2
September 4	Private Samuel Pinkerton	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium, Memorial Panel 9
September 30	Private William James Abercrombie	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Moorslede, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave IV.F.24
October 1 or 7	Private Joseph Coulter	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Moorslede, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave IV.B12
October 13	Private George Johnston	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Died while prisoner of war	Perreuse Chateau Franco British National Cemetery, Seine-et-Marne, France, grave I.C.9
October 23	Private William John Wallace	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Killed in action	Harlebeke New British Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave VI.B.18
October 26	Lance Corporal Harold Irvine	6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons Service Squadron	Pneumonia	Breandrum Cemetery, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, grave 3.221
November 3	Private William McCormick	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Died of wounds	Kezelberg Military Cemetery, Wevelgem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave II.A.14
December 4	Private Robert William Kerr	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Heart disease while prisoner of war	Hamburg Cemetery, Germany, grave I.D.8
1919
Date	Name and rank	Unit	How died	Buried/ commemorated
January 28	Lieutenant Thomas Humphrey Hesketh	21st Lancers (Empress of India's)	Scarlet fever, pneumonia	Cathcart Cemetery, Renfrewshire, Scotland
October 26	Private Robert Mills	9th (NIH) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers	Cerebro spinal meningitis	Fivemiletown Church of Ireland Cemetery, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
1920
Date	Name and rank	Unit	How died	Buried/ commemorated
January 14	Lieutenant Colonel Athelstan Chamberlayne	Indian Army	Killed in action	Delhi Memorial (India Gate), Face 23, India
January 21	Captain Herbert Charles Pallant	Indian Army Reserve of Officers	Influenza	Tehran War Cemetery, Tehran, Iran