Hyde Michael Armstrong Private 14598156
Personnel Entry
Name Hyde Michael Armstrong
Army number 14598156
Rank Private.
Decorations None yet known beyond Service Awards - 1939-45 Medal, War Medal and France and Germany Star.
Date of birth Born 6/9/1909.
Age
Unit Enlisted in the General Staff Corps - date not yet known - and underwent Basic Training at a Primary Training Centre. Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry - date not yet confirmed. Served Normandy. Wounded. Posted to ? Battalion DLI. Returned to the UK. Granted Class A Release. Relegated to the Z (T) Reserve 7/11/1946 Div 3/A 41. Demobilised.
Company/Battery Not yet ascertained.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Not yet known but probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade Not yet known.
Promotions Corporal from 7/7/1948.
Wounded Yes - Normandy - date not recorded.
Prisoner of War Not as far as is known.
Died/Killed in action Date of death January 1995 in Newcastle District, aged 85.
Home address Lived at 6 Marlborough Street, Seaham when his Service Awards were issued to him. Stepfather John T. Hope. Biological Mother Margaret Hope. Married October 1942, Durham Eastern District, Isabella (Della) Richardson (1905 - 2001). At the time of the 1939 General Census he was working as a Bricklayer.
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