John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies
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John Graham Hope Horsley de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies PC, styled The Hon. John Beresford until 1910, was an Anglo-Irish army officer, civil servant, and polo player in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Lord Decies in 1919
Lord Decies and his first wife, Helen, in 1911
South Irish Horse
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The South Irish Horse was a Special Reserve cavalry regiment of the British Army. Formed as an Imperial Yeomanry regiment in 1902 as the South of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry, it perpetuated a unit formed during the Second Boer War. It transferred to the Special Reserve (Cavalry) in 1908 and was renamed as the South Irish Horse. Having taken part in the fighting of World War I, it was disbanded after Irish Independence in 1922.
A "Sweetheart pin" with the emblem of the South Irish Horse (SIH), sent by a soldier to his girlfriend as a memento
A typical Imperial Yeoman on campaign
South Irish Horse, a Dubliner resting on his way to Arras Front, drawing by William Orpen, 1917
Memorial to the fallen of the South Irish Horse in World War I at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin