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Private John Hamilton Kaye

 

John Hamilton Kaye was born on 16 September 1896 at Gledswood Back Lodge, Rathdown, County Dublin, the second of seven children of gardener William Kaye and his wife Margaret (née McCartney). By the time of the 1911 Census he was living at Newtown Castlebryn, Stillorgan, Dublin, with his parents and four of his siblings, and working as a garden boy.

Kaye enlisted in the North Irish Horse between 1 and 20 November 1916 (regimental number 2304 or 2305 – later Corps of Hussars No.71748). In January 1918 he embarked for Egypt with a draft of North Irish Horsemen from the regimental reserve at Antrim. There he was attached to the 1/1st Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers), serving with that regiment in the Palestine campaign. He was later attached to the 13th Hussars.

Kaye was demobilised and transferred to Class Z, Army Reserve, on 17 October 1919.

 

John Kaye's brother William Henry Kaye also served in the war, in the North Irish Horse and Royal Irish Rifles.