JAMES ROBERT. B. ARMSTRONG
27th October 1915 the Belfast News-Letter informed its readers that North Irish Horse Lieutenant James Robert. B. Armstrong had transferred to the 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars. Armstrong revealed the main reason for his move in a letter to his father – that he was finding it hard to afford the lavish messing being insisted on by the squadron’s senior officers! He wrote: “… any mess I have been to out here has been a good deal cheaper than ours.…











