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Harold ARMSTRONG

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Surname: ARMSTRONG

Forename(s): Harold

Place of Birth: Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire

Service No: 277633

Rank: Private

Regiment / Corps / Service: Labour Corps

Battalion / Unit: 232nd Coy

Division: ---

Age: 32

Date of Death: 1918-04-17

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: VIII. I. 203.

CWGC Cemetery: BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

CWGC Memorial: ---

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial: SKIPTON, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information:

Harold Armstrong was the son of Richard and Amelia Armstrong, née Walker. Richard was born at Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland and Amelia at Whitefield, Lancashire.

1891 Patricroft, Lancashire Census: 194, Liverpool Road - Harold Armstrong, aged 5 years, born Pendleton, Lancashire, son of Richard and Amelia Armstrong.

1901 Patricroft, Lancashire Census: 322, Trafford Road - Harold Armstrong, aged 15 years, born Pendleton, Lancashire, son of Richard and Amelia Armstrong.

1911 Patricroft, Lancashire Census: 322, Trafford Road - Harold Armstrong, aged 25 years, born Pendleton, Lancashire, son of Richard and Amelia Armstrong.

Harold was married to Edith Broomhead in 1913.

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Harold Armstrong, 277633, Lab. Corps.

British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Harold Armstrong, 277633, Lab. Corps.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Harold Armstrong, 277633, 232 Lab. Co. Date and Place of Death: 17.4.18. Boulogne. Wounds. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow and Sole Legatee - Edith. £8 13s. 9d.

UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Harold. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Edith, born 31.7.87. Address 1. 354, Liverpool Road, Patricroft, Manchester. Address 2. The Bridge, Patricroft, Manchester. Child: Nellie Armstrong, born 8.1.16.

Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry

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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Labour Corps

Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Labour Corps

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Surname: ARMSTRONG

Forename(s): Harold

Born: Pendleton, Lancs

Residence: Patricroft, Manchester

Enlisted: Glasgow

Number: 277633

Rank: Private

Regiment: Labour Corps

Battalion:

Decorations:

Died Date: 17/04/18

Died How: Died of wounds

Theatre of War: France & Flanders

Notes: Formerly 30121, W. Riding Regt.

Data from Commonwealth War Graves Commission Records

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Surname: ARMSTRONG

Forename(s): Harold

Country of Service: United Kingdom

Service Number: 30121

Rank: Private

Regiment: Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

Unit: Transf. to (277633) 232nd Coy. Labour Corps

Age: 32

Awards:

Died Date: 17/04/1918

Additional Information: Son of Richard and Amelia Armstrong, of Patricroft, Manchester; husband of Edith Armstrong, of The Bridge, Patricroft, Manchester.

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England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966

1918

ARMSTRONG Harold of 15 Bright-street Skipton-in-Craven Yorkshire a private in the 232nd Employment Company died 17 April 1918 in France Probate Wakefield 24 May to Edith Armstrong widow. Effects £75.

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CWGC Headstone

Courtesy of Colin Chadwick, Harrogate

Boulogne Eastern Cemetery

Boulogne Eastern Cemetery

CWGC Headstone - personal inscription

Courtesy of Colin Chadwick, Harrogate

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26 April 1918

Private Harold Armstrong, Skipton

News has reached Skipton that Pte. Harold Armstrong, who was formerly employed in the offices at Belle Vue Mills, and lived in Brook Street, Skipton, has died of wounds, received in the big battle, at a base hospital in France, Beyond these bare facts, however, no further information is to hand. Deceased was 32 years of age, and his widow now resides at Eccles.

18 April 1919

ARMSTRONG - In sad and loving memory of my dear husband, Private Harold Armstrong, who died of wounds April 17th, 1918.

From his sorrowing Wife and Babs. The Bridge, Patricroft, Manchester.

23 February 1923

ODDFELLOWS’ WAR MEMORIAL

UNVEILING CEREMONY AT A SKIPTON LODGE

OVER 200 WHO SERVED

There was a large attendance of local members of the Independent Order of Oddfellows at the Friendly Societies' Hall, Skipton, on Saturday afternoon, on the occasion of the unveiling of a war memorial to the members of the Loyal Traveller's Friend Lodge, I.O.O.F, M.U., who fell in the war.

The Memorial takes the form of a beautifully designed scroll within an oak frame with a glass front, the work of Mr. H. Spencer, junr., and it bears the inscription:-

LOYAL/TRAVELLER'S FRIEND LODGE,/SKIPTON DISTRICT ./I.O.O.F. ROLL OF HONOUR M.U./OF/THOSE MEMBERS OF THIS LODGE WHO FOUGHT FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY TO UPHOLD THE SACRED CAUSES OF BROTHERHOOD AND HUMANITY IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918.

Below the inscription are the names of 173 members who served in the war, and of the 40 members who were killed. The names of the fallen occupy a central position on the scroll, and above them are the following words:-

IN MEMORIAM
OF THOSE WHO MADE THE
SUPREME SACRIFICE.
THEIR HEARTS ARE LIFTED UP
THEIR HEARTS
THAT HAVE FOREKNOWN
THE UTTER PRICE,
THEIR HEARTS BURN
UPWARD AS A FLAME
OF SPLENDOUR AND OF
SACRIFICE

The names of the fallen are as follows:- H. Armstrong, J.J. Brown, J. Barrett, Robt. Brown, W.W. Bell, A. Clayton, W.H. Coles, T.C. Chew, Tom Downes, T.M. Drummond, Jos. Emmott, Thos. Edmondson, J. Easterby, F. Gallagher, J.W. Garwood, G.E. Godwin, S.J. Hargreaves, M. Hargreaves, A. Hebden, J. Hebden, A. Hawkswell, T.E. Inman, M. Lund, R.C. [R.G.] Metcalfe, Hbt. Maudsley, Hy. Maudsley, A.J. Pimnock [Pinnock], H.Y. [Harry] Riley, T.W. Storey, J.H. Stewart, R. Spencer, J.W. Shuttleworth, Wm. Tempest, Hbt. Thompson, Fred Thornton, J.W. Varley, John Ward, J.A. Whittaker, J.W. Whittaker, and R.D. Whittaker.

The Unveiling Ceremony

The unveiling ceremony was presided over by Bro. Thos. Bellamy, and was performed by Bro. Amos Culpan, Prov. C.S., and a simple service included the singing of the hymns, 'O God our help' and Kipling's Recessional, 'God of our fathers,' and the reading of a portion of Scripture, and the offering of a prayer by Bro. James Greenwood, of Bradford, and formerly of Skipton.

Bro. Bellamy observed that those members of the Lodge whom they were met to honour went into battle, suffered untold privations, and, in many cases, made the supreme sacrifice. They gave their lives in defence of their homes and their country. Further than that, they gave their lives for justice and freedom, and in order that we might live. It was the duty of Oddfellows, equally as much as other sections of the community, to do everything within their power to make the country better for that sacrifice. "In the time of our prosperity," concluded Bro. Bellamy, "never let us forget those who served us in the time of our adversity."

A Lesson of the War

Prior to unveiling the memorial, Bro. Culpan described the ceremony he had been asked to perform as one not unattended by sorrow. It was an occasion upon which one felt a desire to make their Order better for the sacrifice of its members, and to extend the true spirit of brotherhood. In nearly 4,000 of their Lodges they would find a roll of honour. Over 22,000 of their members made the supreme sacrifice, and thousands of others were ruined and shattered in health and without prospects for the future. Each and all of them ought to perform some daily service that would make the sacrifice of those men worth while. One result of the terrible ordeal of 1914 to 1918 was the creation of a better feeling between men, and a desire to break down the class barriers that formerly existed. That was one of the great lessons of the war.

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26 April 1918

CRAVEN AND THE WAR

Private H. Armstrong Dies of Wounds

Pte. Harold Armstrong, husband of Mrs. Armstrong, of Eccles, near Manchester, and formerly of Brook Street, Skipton, has died of wounds at a base hospital in France. Pte. Armstrong, who was 32 years of age, was prior to enlisting employed in the office at Belle Vue Mills, and previous to that at the head office in Manchester.

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