Armstrong, Colville Frederick (Lance Corporal, b.1897 - d.1918)

Place Europe: France
Accession Number 1DRL/0056
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement 1 wallet: 1 cm
Object type Letter
Maker Armstrong, Colville Frederick
Place made France
Date made 1917-1919
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM93 12/11/551
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

Collection relating to service of 3683 Lance Corporal Colville Frederick Armstrong, 4 Machine Gun Battalion, France, 1917-1919. Collection includes letters from Armstrong to his family, and letters to the Armstrong family concerning Armstrong's illness and death from influenza.

History / Summary

Biographical note: 3683 Private Colville Frederick Armstrong, 4 Battalion,Australian Machine Gun Corps. Died of sickness, France, 19 December 1918. Age 21. Son of Colville Beckett Armstrong and Mena Armstrong, of Colins St., Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.