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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:35 am Post subject: Sgt John Armstrong - RAMC **identified on CWGC** |
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Sgt John Armstrong of the RAMC is listed on the Hawick Roll of Honour.
An extract from "Hawick & The War" states:
"Sgt John Armstrong, RAMC, son of the late Frank Armstrong, 19 Dalkeith Place, Hawick".
No date is given.
Only 1 medal index card existes for a Sgt.John Armstrong, RAMC - this man was born Waterbeck, Dumfries, enlisted Guernsey. He was no.43308:
Name: ARMSTRONG
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
Secondary Unit Text: attd. S.M.O. (Brest)
Date of Death: 02/03/1918
Service No: 43308
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 40. 1. 24.
Cemetery: BREST (KERFAUTRAS) CEMETERY
Is the above CWGC entry the same man as is listed on the Hawick Roll of Honour?
If not, who was the Hawick John Armstrong? _________________
Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. |
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dhubthaigh Our first ever 1000-poster
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 5071 Location: Blairgowrie, Perthshire
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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John Armstrong was born circa 1872 in Waterbeck, Dumfriesshire. He was the son of Frank Armstrong (joiner) & Isabella Thomson.
John's father re-married Margaret Gladstone after Isabella's death in 1883. In the 1901 census Frank & Maggie were residing at 5 Waverley Tce. Hawick.
Frank died at 19 Dalkeith Pl, Hawick in 1915. His nephew Frank, 4 Rose Vale Street, Hawick, was the informant.
I believe this John Armstrong No. 43308 to be the same man. |
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dhubthaigh Our first ever 1000-poster
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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On Ancestry there is the service record of John Armstrong, 6 Rose Vale St., Hawick. I think this could well be the cousin of Derek's 'John Armstrong'. |
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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Mark,
Good man!
I don't know how you found him but I'm really chuffed that you have. _________________
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kinnethmont
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 5:24 pm Post subject: Sgt John Armstrong - RAMC |
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This man also transferred to the RAMC in Feb 1918 138810 and survived the conflict. _________________ Jim
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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