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Private Christopher Armstrong

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Christopher Edward Armstrong

Ancestor's date of birth: 1876

Ancestor's date of death: 1968

Cause of Death: Cancer

Service Number: 208

Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Melbourne

Unit: 6th Australian Commonwealth Horse 4 Troop B Squadron

Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: On enlistment

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service

Murray Page: 330

Contingent: Third Australian

Ship: Manchester Merchant, Date of Sailing: 19/05/1902

Memorial details: Detail not provided

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal and SA 1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: A farmer from Katunga Victoria, He was 184 cm tall with blue eyes.

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: Unit arrived after the war ended.

Service and life after the Boer War: Listed as a soldier in WW2, is his Son, Harold Sydney Armstrong from Gayndah, QLD. No other details provided of his life after the Boer War.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Montgomery Thompson, Lindfield NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

 


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