Victor Seymour ARMSTRONG

ARMSTRONG, Victor Seymour

    Service Number: 675
    Enlisted: 18 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 4th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 6 February 1889
    Home Town: Mosman, Municipality of Mosman, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Journalist
    Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 6 August 1915, aged 26 years
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    Memorial Ref: 21., Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing
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    World War 1 Service

    18 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 675, 4th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
    20 Oct 1914: Involvement Private, 675, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
    20 Oct 1914: Embarked Private, 675, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Next of kin given as his brother Eric M. Armstrong and Mrs Weir,'Tegumae', Cowles Road, Mosman, NSW. Brother of Allan Seymour Armstrong who returned to Australia on 8 October 1918 having served with the 7th Light Horse and 14th Field Artillery Brigade

    Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

    Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

    The date of death is not certain; it could be between  06/08/1915 and 09/08/1915.

    He was 27 and lived in Seaview Road , Leigh-on-Sea and later, Cromer Road,  Southend.

    In the United Kingdom, he is honoured on the war memorial  now in Prittlewell Priory, Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

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