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ARMITSTEAD, WILLIAM GEORGE, brother of John Richard Armitstead (qv); b. 22 Mar 1833; adm. 1 Oct 1846 (Scott's); QS 1847; Capt. of the School 1851; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1852, matr. 3 Jun 1852, Westminster Student to 1856 [check]; played cricket against Cambridge 1853-4, 1856-7; BA 1857; MA 1865; ordained deacon 1859, priest 1860 (both Chester); Curate, Sandbach Heath, Cheshire 1859-62; Vicar of Goostrey, Cheshire, from 1862; m. May 1865 Mary Susan, dau. of Rev. W. Currie, Boughton Hall, Cheshire; d. 12 Mar 1907.

Armitt, Henry Cecil; b. Dec. 5, 1898; adm. Oct. 4, 1912 (R); left July 1917; Probationary Flying Officer R. N. A. S. Aug. 14, 1917; submarine and reconnaissance patrol, North Sea.

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ARMSTRONG, ---; in school list Jun 1764; left 13 Aug 1764.

Armstrong, Angus MacConnal, son of Rev. Frederick William Armstrong of Bromley, Kent, and Margaret Muriel, d. ofJohn MacConnal of Tarbert, Argyllshire; b. 13 Nov. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (A), non-res. KS Sept. 1930; left July 1934; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1934, BA 1938 (1st class hons Litt. Hum.), MA 1941; PhD (Edinburgh) 1943; Asst Sec. DOE; retd.; d. 15 May 2003

Armstrong, Cecil Ferard, brother of Walter Launcelot Armstrong (q.v.); b. Jan. 20, 1877; adm. Sept. 24, 1891 (R); left July 1895; London Univ.; Slade School of Art; dramatist and dramatic critic; author of A Century of Great Actors (1912), other books, and several plays; served in Great War I Oct. 1914-0ct. 1919; temp. Capt. R. A. S. C. Oct. 15, 1915; d. 1934.

Armstrong, Charles Francis, son of Montagu D'Oyly Fullerton Armstrong, of Horton Kirby, Kent, by Florence Angelica Sophia, daughter of Charle.; John Proby, H. M. Consul at Florence; b. May 27, 1881; adm. April 23, 1896 (R); left April 1899; Capt. in the Egyptian Coastguard Service; d. unm. at Alexandria, Egypt, Dec. 11, 1904.

Armstrong, John Cochrane Highet, son of Norman Cochrane Armstrong, linen merchant, of Twickenham, and Flora Hamilton, d. of Robert Patterson Shaw, of Belfast, Northern Ireland; b. 8 June 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (W); left July 1954; Univ. of Lond. (Northampton Eng. Coll. ) 1955-60, apprentice D. Napier & Son 1955-60, Associated Automation Ltd. 1960-4, CEng MIMechE 1972; industrial engineer H. J. Heinz & Co. 1966-87; man. dir. Thanetcraft Ltd. (aluminium boats) 1987-; m. May 1991 Rosamond Wilkinson; d. 10 Feb. 2013.

Armstrong, Lindsay Crawford, son of Hugh Clayton Armstrong, solicitor, of Bromley, Kent, and Norah MacMahon, d. of William Henry Cortland Mahon of Dulwich; b. 21 June 1912; adm. April 1926 (A); left July 1929; a timber merchant; Roy. Sussex Regt 1940-4 (Lieut.); m.; d. of smallpox on active service in India 10 Apr. 1944.

Lindsay Crawford Armstrong was born at Bromley, Kent on the 21st of June 1912 the youngest son of Hugh Clayton Armstrong, a solicitor, and Nora Macmahon (nee Mahon) Armstrong of 7, Sanford Road, Bromley. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from April 1926 to July 1929 after which he went to work as a timber merchant. He was married at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1933 to Leonore “Nordie” Mary (nee Langton) of Chidham in Sussex.
Following the outbreak of war he attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the 21st of September 1940. He was later attached to the 1st Battalion, Sierra Leone Regiment.
On the 1st of February 1944, the 1st Battalion, Sierra Leone Regiment was advancing down the banks of the Kaladan River in Burma in pursuit of the retreating Japanese, who had placed a number of ambush parties in their path. D Company was patrolling in advance of the rest of the Battalion when Lindsay Armstrong singlehandedly killed an entire seven man Japanese patrol.
He was later contracted smallpox from which he died.
He is buried at Chittagong War Cemetery Plot 7, Row D Grave 8