A couple of British officers/officer cadets appear in the postcard/photo of the arrest of the Kent brothers. Tom and William Kent appear to be heading over the Fermoy Bridge under escort while (it is said) that the wounded Richard and Thomas are being transported in the wagon in the background.
The man in the lead looks to be a commissioned officer while the three carrying rifles and ammunition bandoliers are most likely officer cadets from the 7th Officer Cadet Battalion at Fermoy.
Not too much appears in text re the officers involved in the action to arrest the Kent family.
Two do however give statements at the court martial of Thomas Kent :
Reginald Sebastian Page-Green (1895-1917)
Page-Green enlisted in the Canadian 31st Battalion in November 1914.
https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B7537-S028
Gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant with the Royal Fusliers on 20th September 1915.
He is listed as being with the 14th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers in the Thomas Kent court martial document.
He died in Belgium in 1917.
Mention is made of the award of a posthumous Military Cross to Page-Green :
http://s525015826.websitehome.co.uk/Obits/The%20Fallen.pdf
Percy James McChesney (1892-1959)
Not sure of enlistment date yet but appears to have started his military career in the cavalry as no 1958, County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons).
Gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant with the Royal Fusiliers on 7th December 1915.
Hea is listed as being with the 15th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers in the Thomas Kent court martial document.
He would later find himslef in the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force from about Febraury 1917. He appears to have been wounded at some point and declared fit only for Home Service/Garrison duties.
Leaving the RAF in Jnauary 1919, he would live in Calcutta for a short period before returning to London in time for the 1921 census.
McChesney died in Sussex in February 1959.
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