North Irish Horse

North Irish Horse
The badge of the North Irish Horse.
Active1902–1946
1947–present (as a Sqdn)
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeYeomanry
RoleFormation Reconnaissance
SizeOne Squadron
Part ofRoyal Armoured Corps
Garrison/HQBelfast
Nickname(s)The Horse, The Millionaires Own
Motto(s)Quis Separabit (Who shall separate us) (Latin)
MarchGarryowen
AnniversariesHitler Line, 24 May
EngagementsSomme, Ypres, Hitler Line, Iraq, Afghanistan
Commanders
Honorary ColonelColonel J W Rollins MBE
Insignia
TartanSaffron (pipes)

The North Irish Horse was a yeomanry unit of the British Territorial Army raised in the northern counties of Ireland in the aftermath of the Second Boer War. Raised and patronised by the nobility from its inception to the present day, it was one of the first non-regular units to be deployed to France and the Low Countries with the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 during World War I and fought with distinction both as mounted troops and later as a cyclist regiment, achieving eighteen battle honours. The regiment was reduced to a single man in the inter war years and re-raised for World War II, when it achieved its greatest distinctions in the North African and Italian campaigns. Reduced again after the Cold War, the regiment's name still exists in B (North Irish Horse) Squadron, the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry and 40 (North Irish Horse) Signal Squadron, part of 32 Signal Regiment.