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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: Middlebie Church WW1 Roll of Honour |
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not listed on UKNIWM
This Roll of Honour is in the entrance to Middlebie Church at OS Map Ref: NY 215 762
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder what kind of war Fergus Armstrong had? Two Serbian awards and one Romanian one.
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stuartn
Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for this.
It is now report 71684 on the WMR (ex UKNIWM) |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7755 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 8:39 am Post subject: |
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Adam Brown wrote: | I wonder what kind of war Fergus Armstrong had? Two Serbian awards and one Romanian one.
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From the Edinburgh University Roll of Service:
ARMSTRONG, FERGUS.
Abergele School. M.B., Ch.B. 1909; M.D. and F.R.C.S. (Edin.) 1913. O.T.C.
Medical, April 1908-10, Cadet Corporal. R.A.M.C., Lieut. Sept. 1914; Captain
March 1915. Welsh War Hospital. Serbian Army, Major 1915. Lady Paget's
and Queen of Roumania's Hospitals, 1916-18. Taken prisoner of war at
Skoplje Oct. 1915. Officer of Order of Star of Roumania, July 1917.
He was commissioned in the RAMC and served at the Welsh War Hospital at Netley before resigning his commission to go to the British Field Hospital in Serbia and then to the Serbian Relief Fund Hospitals in Serbia and Albania.
London Gazette 26/7/1918 p.8896
Foreign Office, July 24, 1918. The KING has been pleased to grant unrestricted permission to Fergus Armstrong, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S., to wear the Cross of Officer of the Order of the Star of Roumania, with swords, conferred upon him by His Majesty the King of Roumania in recognition of his services with the Roumanian Red Cross at Jassy and Bucharest. _________________ Ken |
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