Irish officers at Denshawai?

Been reading what I can about the "Denshawai Incident" which took place in Egypt in 1906.

In very brief summary, a group of five British cavalry officers who were part of the British garrison occupying Egypt to safeguard Britain's part ownership of the Suez canal, went pigeon hunting in the Egyptian village of Denshawai. They were accompanied by an Egyptian policeman and an interpreter.

As they started shooting pigeons, for sport, they enraged the villagers who had been breeding the pigeons for food. A scuffle started, shots were fired, the wife of a village elder was seriously wounded and a barn was accidentally set on fire.

The villagers overpowered, and gave a good kicking to, the officers who surrendered and were rescued by village elders who managed to calm the crowd down. Two of the officers escaped into the desert; one made it back to base, the other died of heatstroke.

At a time of growing nationalist resentment to the British presence, the authorities clamped down hard on the villagers. One villager, suspected, almost certainly wrongly, of killing the soldier who died was summarily executed by a British patrol. The participants in the riot were tried quickly and harshly, by a panel which included both British and Coptic Christian judges.

Four villagers were publicly hanged, several more imprisoned and others flogged. The incident caused huge resentment and is still remembered in Egypt as a turning point in attitudes to British rule. Fifty years later, following the Egyptian diplomatic victory during the Suez crisis, a well known Egyptian journalist announced "The pigeons of Denshawai have come home to roost."


Thing is, apparently two of the original five officers whose hooray Henry antics had caused the whole problem were Irish. Anybody here know who they were? Any names? Can't find any in any of the sources I have looked at.

Would be interesting.