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Military service
Service number:
135092
Age:
34
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
2nd Mounted Rifles
Birth:
February 26, 1882
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 30, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of the late William and Mary Armstrong, of Birmingham, England; husband of Florence E. Clark (formerly Armstrong), of Bolton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Armstrong
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Obituary
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Press Clipping
Caption (pg. 381): MEN OF PEEL KILLED DURING THE GREAT WAR. Author - William Perkins Bull. "From Brock to Currie: the military development and exploits of Canadians in general and of the men of Peel in particular, 1791 to 1930." Toronto, 1935. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of GEORGE ARMSTRONG
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Private George Armstrong
Digital gallery of
Private George Armstrong
Digital gallery of
Private George Armstrong
Digital gallery of
Private George Armstrong
Digital gallery of
Private George Armstrong
Digital gallery of
Private George Armstrong
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 47 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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