Armstrong Angus Sergeant 4273537
Personnel Entry
Name Armstrong Angus
Army number 4273537
Rank Sergeant
Decorations
Date of birth
Age 41
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted 9th Battalion. Taken Prisoner at Singapore 15/2/1942. Died of Malaria, Sonkrai, Siam 1943 (CWGC has his date of death as 19/7/1945).
Company/Battery HO Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade
Promotions
Wounded
Prisoner of War 15/2/1942.
Died/Killed in action Died 19/7/1945 while a prisoner of the Japanese. Battalion Part II Orders have his death as occurring in 1943.
Home address Son of John Sylvanus and Mary Ann Armstrong. Husband of Elsie Smith Armstrong of Felton, Northumberland (When Battalion Part II Orders were written in September 1945 she apparently lived at 3, Beacon Road, Hampeth, Morpeth). Buried in grave B3.K.15 Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.
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