Name
Henry Louis Winthrop Armstrong
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/11/1915
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RUE-PETILLON MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX
I. N. 8.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 7 Mar 1880 Sydney, Australia son of Frederick Jennings and Florence Ellen (Winthrop) Armstrong. Educated at Haileybury 1894-97. Became an actor manager. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
On the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the Gloucestershire Territorials in Aug 1914 and was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Somerset Light Infantry on 25 Jan 1915. Entered France in July 1915. Mentioned in Dispatches (1 Jan 1916) and was killed in action in the trenches near Armentieres.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
