Sergeant Thomas Armstrong
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of birth: 1890-02-19
Place of birth: Ayr Ayrshire Scotland
Next of kin: mother,Margaret Armstrong,88 Ayr Rd.,Old Cumnock, Ayrshire.
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Carpenter
Occupation (normalized): Carpenter, General
Religion: Presbyterian
Date of death:
1916-01-31
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, K. 82.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 73744
Highest Rank:
Sergeant
(28th Battalion)
Rank detail
Sergeant, 28th Battalion, Infantry (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Kemmel Sector. See details below.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
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CWGC ID: 154723
LAC ID:
13338
Service file: B0236-S036
Uploader's Notes:
Son of Robert and Margaret Hunter Armstrong of Chapel, Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
On the evening of the 30/31st of January 1916, a party of Bombers in conjunction with a number of Scouts made a raid on the enemy front line trench. During the raid, Sergeant Armstrong was killed instantly by rifle and machine gun fire.
Uploader's Research notes:
Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948" database
Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial
[Sergeant Army Canadian Infantry 28th Battalion ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-03-21