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
Captain Edward Mungo Dorman
Captain Claude Seymour Foster
Veterinary Captain Joseph May Magill
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
Lieutenant L.C. Wise
Quartermaster and Hon Lieut Wolley J Field
2nd Lieutenant Folliott Warren Barton
2nd Lieutenant William Porter Archdale
2nd Lieutenant Frederick William Conyngham
2nd Lieutenant Charles Albert Oecken
Surgeon-Major Edward Charles Thompson
Hon Chaplain Walter Auchinleck Stack

 

 

 


Other ranks

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James Adair
Reginald Armstrong
R.H. Andrews
John Adams
Robert Armstrong
William Anderson
David George Armstrong
Hugh Ashcroft
James H Alexander
Robert Averell
John Adair
Clifford B.C. Arnold
Thomas Angus
Albert Aiken
Hugh McMillan Alexander

 

James Anderson
Thomas Abercrombie
Samuel Austin
Alfred Adrain
Gustaf Akerlind
Hugh Alexander Annesley
William James Acheson
R.N. Anderson
Henry James Armstrong

 

 

Victor Nelson Bell
Alexander Blair
William Beattie
Herbert Brennan
Edmond Buchanan
Robert Cooke Blair
Sydney Brunsdon
William Browne
Joseph Smith Bailey
Samuel Burnside
Humphrey Boyd
Thomas David Bratty
Albert Edward Brunsdon
John Beggie
Edward Frank Brooks
Frank Allen Brewer
Cecil Kenny Brewer
Reginald Kenny Brewer
Robert T. Birnie
William Harris Boyd
Thomas Bailey
David Hunter Bond
William Andrew Bamford
William Blakes
Charles Bell
Emmanuel (Mandey) Berwitz
Robert Beckett
Robert Bagshaw
John Berry
John Balfour
Henry Booth
Corporal Brennan
George Alexander Brown
William Brennan
Robert James Blakely
Alexander Ballam
Joseph Buick
Robert William Brooks
Louis Ball
Joseph Bingham
Thomas George Beattie
Joseph Knox Bailie
William Boyle
Robert Burke
William Burke
Thomas Burrows
Samuel Black
Philip James Balmer
Clifford Russell Boyd
William A.M. Buchanan
David Roulston Bates
Thomas Hay Ritchie Browne
Herbert John Blythe
Alexander Doveton John Brennan
James Blackburne
John McDowell Boyd
Edward Joseph Bright

 

 

Frederick St G. Cooke
Samuel Cosgrove
John Cully
William Maxted Coltart
William Percival Cowan
Joseph Close
James Coburn
Thomas Clarke
James Cunning
Corporal David Connolly
Andrew Colquhoun
Francis Colquhoun
Joseph Chambers
Frederick Carlisle
John Willaim Clancy
Robert James Corry
John Conway
William John Cherrie
John St Claire Clarke
Thomas James Cairns
Thomas Chambers
James Craig
John Cowell
Alexander Chestnut
Ezekiel Boyd Chestnut
James Crothers
Thomas William Collins
Garnet Wesley Cornwell
William John Craig
George Joseph Carberry
Robert Campbell
Henry Ernest Craig
John Sydney Copeland
Robert Craigan
James Randal Beresford Cramsie
Henry Alfred Chandler
James Roy Lindsay Connar
Hamilton Clendining

 

 

James Denny
Joseph Deery
Alexander Dundee
Albert Dundee
Robert Dundee

 

James Davis
Wilson Donaghy
James Alexander Dickson
Edward Deane
James Davison

 

 

Hugh Dixon
Albert Victor Dunseith
Reuben B Dickson
George Dodds
Charles Elder
Frederick James Emby
Herbert Eakin
Charles Essery
William English
Patrick Maybin Esler
Walter Alexander Edmenson

 

 

William James Finlay
Hugh Flanagan
George Farley
Thomas Foreman
Thomas Foster
Samuel Fawcett
James Ferris
Wesley Freeland
Joseph William Fisher
Edward Farren Fryer
George Frederick Sexton Finch
Frederick David William Ferguson
John James Foster
John Allen French
William Ferguson

 

 

George Gill
George Galbraith
William Govan
J.K.M. Greer
Albert Brice Galway
Joseph Gibson
Albert Garnett
John Gillespie
John Quee Graham
Ernest Gilliland
Robert J Green
T.R. Gordon
John Gracey
William John Green
Thomas Graham
John S. Grant
Alexander Robert Gilliland
James Greene
Houston Graham
Oswald Gordon Gregson
Raymond Green

 

 

George Adams Henry
Matthew Haggan
Thomas Hall
J.S.K. Hunter
Andrew Ellison Hatrick
Francis R Harding
John Heenan
Robert James Hassard
David Hanley
William James Hughan
Hugh Higgins
Samuel Houston
George Harris
Nathaniel Harvey
William J. Hutchinson
George Honer
William Holmes
John Thomas Howe
Robert Houston
Richard Hoy
Alfred Holden
Joseph Henry
Hamilton Thomas Hutchinson
John Hogg
Thomas Andrew Harrison
Archy Hartin
Robert Coleman Herbison
Richard Ernest McLaughlin Hamilton
Eugene Jerome Harrington
Thomas John Halliday
Joseph Huggins
William Samuel Hamilton
Robert James Herron
John Alexander Stuart Harrison
Samuel Simpson Hunter
Samuel Victor Hood
William Lyttle Harcourt
Walter Gamble Hamilton

 

 

Richard Irwin
Robert Irwin
Hiram Irwin
John Irwin
Arthur Ferguson Ingram

 

 

Sidney Jackson
Robert Johnston
Herbert Alexander Jones
George Uriah Johnston
Matthew Jackson
Thomas Jamison
Robert Jamison
William James Johnston
Terence Clement Jones
William Jordan
David James Johnston
William Johnston
William Frederick Jackson
John Johnston

 

 

James Kelly
John D. King
John Knox
Frederick Knox
William Kirkpatrick
William Alexander Kelly
Alfred Ernest Karr
Johnston Kyle
David Kelly
Richard Kelly
Alexander Kennedy
Robert Kinnear
John Nesbitt Kerr
Francis Kidd
Henry Franklin Kelly
William J Knox
Richard Knox
John Knox
Cecil Marcus King
James Harvey King
David Kernohan

 

 

William Leckey
Thomas Lyons
Edward Lennox
Samuel Linden
Robert Victor Lyons
James Lynn
William Lipsett
John Thomas Lockhart
J. A. Laughlin
David Law
James Ingram Leyburn
William Loughran
Frederick J. Lindsay
William Ewart Gladstone Lockhart
Hugh Lusk
Archibald Laird
Thomas Lyons
George Alexander Lewis
Percy William Larkin
Thomas Luck
Robert Lowry
John Leyburn
Wallace Linton
William Gill Lindsay
Frederick Hill Liken
Joseph Lyons

 

 

Thomas McCormick
Thomas A. McReynolds
Frederick McConnell
Thomas McKillop
William J. McAuley
F.J.E McFarland
J.A. MacLean
A. McClelland
J.W. McVicker
David McCausland
R.J. McCullough
Herbert McKimmon
Joseph McIntyre Macauley
A. McKenzie
Alexander McLellan
William McCalmont
David McCormick
John Alexander McMaster
James Alexander McIlroy
Thomas Owen McVeigh
John Harris McClinton
William Andrew McClinton
John Andrew McNutt
John McFetridge
Richard McWilliams
George McFadden
James McKee
George McLorn
William McCarley
Alexander Weir McKinley
Samuel McClements
William James McMichael
Robert Lavery McCullough
Francis McCaugherty
Hamilton McClay
Frederick McMahon
William Victor McKee
John Henry McCullagh
Gordon Lyle McCotter
Benjamin Moore McCullagh
Hugh Macauley
William Anderson McAllister
John McCartney
Hugh McCahon
William McGeown

 

Patrick McCloskey
Francis Joseph McMahon
Michael John McGuigan
William McStay
Joseph McSweeney
James McBride
Isaac McDowell
Archibald McSparron
Samuel Fulton McCreary
Hubert McManus
Arthur Edwin McMahon
Robert Arthur Arland Macready
John McKinstry
William McMurray

 

 

James Magill
Cyril A Morrison
Alexander Martin
George T. Murray
Robert G.D. Montgomery
William Mills
E.M. Meredith
David Miller
Archibald Moore
Thomas Henry Metcalfe
Henry Francis Murphy
Thomas Mooney
Robert Matchett
James Mooney
George Carse Marsden
James Majury
Benjamin Mitchell
William Joseph Matchett
William Millikin
Harry Mercer
William Herbert Moisley
John Montford
Thomas McAra Majury
Robert John Mehaffey
Frank Albert Mells
Michael Madden
Samuel Russell Millar
Samuel Melville
James Booth Marks
Richard Malcomson
Archibald James Moss
Robert Magee
William Herbert Martin
Samuel Robert Magovern
Richard Moore
Arthur Cree Mitchell
Robert Magee
Samuel Moore
Hugh Morrow
William Martin
Charles Magill
Thomas James Marshall
Ernest George Matthews
Frederick Charles Mateer
William Moore
Stewart Harris Moir
Private William Mitchell

 

 

Robert William Nesbitt
Harold P. Nixon
Hugh Copeland Nixon
John Nixon
John Noble

 

Thomas John Nelson
James Nesbitt

 

 

John O'Prey
William O'Prey
Stafford Woods O'Neill
William Bell O'Donoghue
Thomas Francis Owens
Andrew O'Neill

 

 

William Joseph Petty
Robert Park
Thomas Pyper
Charles Bothwell Pyper
Charles Vesey Purdon
Arthur Henry Palethorpe

 

 

John Edward Riddell
Robert Ross
Hubert Roe
W.J. Robinson
David H. Ransom
David William Ritchie
Robert C. Russell
Wilfred Reavie
John Alexander Ross
Gordon Richardson
Thomas McCready Ross
William John Richmond
Albert Richard Ryan
George Henry Reilly
James Irvine Reynolds
James Lockhart Russell
George Russell
William Rooney
John Rea
Johnston Robinson
John Reid
Albert Rowe
George Charles Ramage
George Victor Ross
William Thomas Roulston
Samuel Ritchie
Samuel Reid
Herbert Graham Rutherford
James Rainey
Victor Ronaldson
Norman Reay

 

 

John Smyth
George M. Shannon
James Sleator
Fred Scanlon
Ernest A. Stevenson
John Scott 
T.J. Savage
Edwin Sinton
William Shields
R. Storey
Hamilton (Hammie) Stewart
W. Scott
Henry Simms
William Alderton Sewell
William Stewart Smyth

 

 

Horace Sewell
Richard Stewart
Robert Cromie Stewart
John Cromie Patterson Stewart
William Brian Simonton
Walter Cooper Sheridan
George Fleming Scarlett
John Smith
Robert Henry Sterling
David Sterritt
Sutton
Wilfred Sloan
John Otter Stroyan
Alexander Lyons Smyth
Thomas Service
Arthur Joseph Smith
Thomas Stewart
John Philip Sheehan
Samuel Skelton
James Maxwell Stewart
William Stevenson
George Stewart
James Smiton
James Tennent Smith
Frederick Rutherford Skillen
James Crawford Stewart
F.W.J. Scammell
Harold Goulburn Shaw
Robert Sterling
Abraham Hodgen Scott

 

 

William Thomson
S.L. Turner
Clement Douglas Turner
William F. Timbey
Brownlow Thompson

 

 

David Toomath
Robert Thomson
Cyril William Taylor
Horace Thompson
John Wesley Teer

 

George Towner
Joseph Thompson
John James Thompson
John Stanley Tucker
Sampson Trotter
Thomas Timmins
John Richard Tilson
Samuel William Taylor
Charles Delmege Trimble

 

 

Alfred Raymond Vaughan
Joseph Ernest Vize
Walter Ernest Vaughan

 

 

Charles R. Woodside
Thomas Wright
Robert A. Wylie
Maurice G Wheelhouse
James Wilson

 

 

John Wright
Clarence Wilson
Robert Watson
William Watt
W. Walker

 

 

Jack Warnock
William (or Matthew) Woods
John Whiteside
James Freeborn Wray
Isaac Walker

 

 

Thomas Watson
Thomas Welton
William M. Whitehead
Charles Watson
Robert William Wells
Richard Alexander Wallace
Donald McFarlane Wallace
George William Watt
Ernest Webb
Richard Ernest Wade
Ernest William Warne
Stewart Wilson
Henry Albert Whiteside
Abraham Widdess

 

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'
Antrim Reserve Depot - Hut 8 group