Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
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30/12/2015
30/12/2015 Family: Galbraith Armstrong, Sarah Armstrong, Emily Armstrong (born 27th November 1880), Robert Armstrong (born 25th July 1882), Thomas Armstrong (born 18th May 1885), Galbraith Armstrong (born 16th December 1888), James Armstrong (born 21st July 1892).
30/12/2015 The 1901 census does not list Thomas as living with the family at house 1 in Moyard, Benburb, County Tyrone. His father was a farmer.
30/12/2015 Thomas moved to Scotland and was a member of the Glasgow police force at the outbreak of the war. Thomas Armstrong joined the 1st battalion of the Irish Guards.
30/12/2015 Thomas was married to Isabella Armstrong.
30/12/2015 Thomas Armstrong enlisted with 1st battalion of the Irish Guards.
30/12/2015 It was later confirmed that Private Thomas Armstrong, who was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards was killed in action on 6th November 1914, aged 29.
30/12/2015 Private Thomas Armstrong has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 11 of the Menin Gate in Ypres.
30/12/2015 Thomas Armstrong was the son of Thomas Galbraith Armstrong and Sarah Jane Armstrong (nee Nelson). Thomas was born in Clonfeacle, County Tyrone on 18th May 1885.
30/12/2015 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 13th May 1916:
30/12/2015 Mr Galbraith Armstrong, Moyard, Benburb, is still without any information regarding the whereabouts of his son, Private Thomas Armstrong, Irish Guards, who was reported as wounded and missing at the Battle of Mons. Private Armstrong was a reservist of that regiment and was a member of the Glasgow police force at the outbreak of the war.
30/12/2015 The 1911 census does not list Thomas as living with the family at house 7 in Moyard, Benburb, County Tyrone.
30/12/2015 Thomas Armstrong was a reservist with the Irish Guards.
30/12/2015 Private Thomas Armstrong was reported as wounded and missing at the Battle of Mons.
30/12/2015 The CWGC record Private Thomas Armstrong as the son of Thomas Galbraith Armstrong and Sarah Jane Armstrong, of Benburb, Moyard, Co. Tyrone. He is also recorded as the husband of the late Isabella Armstrong, of 1616. Maryhill Road, Maryhill, Glasgow.
30/12/2015 Private Thomas Armstrong is commemorated on two separate Glasgow Police War Memorials, both of which now reside in Glasgow Police Museum.
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