Francis Andrew (Frank) Armstrong
- Born: 1894, Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria Australia
- Died: 1948, Mount Park, Victoria Australia at age 54
General Notes:
WW1 Embarkation Record
Armstrong, Francis Andrew
Display Record (PDF File)
Service Number: 2328
Rank/Calling: Private
Unit: 24 Infantry Battalion - 1 to 8 Reinforcements (May 1915 - January 1916)
Ship Name: RMS Osterley
Ship Number:
Date of Embarkation: 29/09/1915
Place of Embarkation: Melbourne
Francis Andrew Armstrong enlisted in the Australia Imperial Force on 7/7/1915. His father William Kerr Armstrong, Kongwak, Vic was his next of kin.
The Certificate of Medical Examination describes Francis as: - 21 years and 4 months, height - 5 feet 6 and three quarter inches, weight 133 and a half pounds, chest measurement - 32 and a half/34 and a half inches, complexion - fair, eyes - blue, hair - dark brown and religious denomination - Presbyterian. His distinctive marks were - vacs - 2 left arm, mole on neck, back of neck and left shoulder.
On the 19/7/1916 Francis wounded in action was admitted to the Canadian Stationary Hospital, Boulogne with a gunshot wound to the right hip.(His brother William was also wounded and admitted the same day) He was sent to England per H.S. David and admitted to the Ontario Military Hospital, Kent and discharged on 19/10/1916. He embarked per S.S. Henriette folkstone for France on 28/11/1916. He was admitted to hospital on 6/4/1917 with diarrhoea and on 12/4/1917 admitted with debility.
Francis returned to Australia per A.29 on 11/8/1917 for discharge - neurosis. He was discharged on 28/12/1917
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation: Presbyterian Home Mission.
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