Lance Corporal George Henry Armstrong
Number: 9394
Company: 46th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion
ENLISTMENT
Date: 9 January 1900
Place: Belfast
Age: 25 years 1 month
Trade of calling: Farmer
Place of birth: In the Parish of Lisnaskea, near the Town of Lisnaskea, in the County of Fermanagh
Family: Next of kin, uncle, Charles Armstrong, Drumguff, Lisnaskea, Fermanagh. Son of Thomas Armstrong, merchant of Drumguff (died 1877) and Susan Frances Armstrong (nee Black).
Previous military service: No
Description: Height 5' 9 7/8". Complexion fresh, eyes grey, hair brown.
Religion: Wesleyan
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 13 March 1900
Campaigns: South Africa 1899-1901
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal, Cape Colony and Orange Free State clasps.
DEATH
Date: 28/30 July 1900
Place: 29th Stationary Hospital, Heilbron
Cause: Enteric fever
Commemorated: Armstrong was buried in the Heilbron Cemetery. He is commemorated on the Heilbron Memorial and on the Yeomanry Kop Memorial, Lindley.
Armstrong was among the 400 men captured by Boer forces at Lindley at the end of May 1900, but appears to have been among the 28 wounded that they left behind in the hospital at Heilbron.
Image 1 sourced from the Australian Boer War Memorial site. Image 2 sourced from the Anglo-Boer War site.
This page last updated 31 July 2024.