John Benjamin Armstrong
Ransome & Marles Bearing Works, Newark.
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Husband of Agnes Armstrong nee Anderson of 36 Harcourt Street, Newark.
served under aged, during WW1, joining the Durham Light Infantry, 20th Rifles Brigade 24/4/1915 being discharged 26/5/1916 due to ill health.
Then joined the 2nd Bn Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment serving as part of The North Persian Force 1918-1919 and during the 1920 Iraqi Revolt.
Died having never fully recovered from his service in Norway as the Sherwood Foresters 8th Battalion’s HQ officers’ mess sergeant. He had been close to Colonel Ford when the Officer Commanding was captured. Escaped back to Britain, but was taken so ill that he was released from military duties and sent to do war work at R&M. He finally succumbed to pneumonia; and his funeral service in St. George’s Chapel was attended by Foresters past and present: Regimental Sergeant Major W. Saddington, Sergeants J. Marshall and H. Pegg, Corporal H.
Fenton, Privates G.W. Tyler, J.F. Chester, W. Cope and J Robinson.
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