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Thomas Acheson ARMSTRONG (1891 - 1917)

Medical student-Sydney Uni

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
	Thomas Acheson ARMSTRONG (1891 - 1917)	Robert ARMSTRONG (1861 - 1942)	Thomas ARMSTRONG (1835 - 1875)
			Anna ACHESON (1834 - 1901)	Robert ACHESON (1789 - 1864)
				Sarah GAINE (1796 - 1871)
		Elizabeth Sarah Thompson MADILL (1871 - 1929)	Richard MADILL (1845 - 1909)	Joseph MADILL
				Sarah (MADILL) THOMPSON
			Elizabeth Cusine (Consine) MATHIE (1842 - 1915)	John MATHIE (1809 - 1877)
				Elizabeth WALLACE (1817 - 1855)

b. 09 Jul 1891 at Queensland, Australia

d. 12 Oct 1917 at Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium aged 26

Near Relatives of Thomas Acheson ARMSTRONG (1891 - 1917)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Grandfather	Thomas ARMSTRONG	1835		1875	Brisky, Co Waterford, Ireland	40
Grandmother	Anna ACHESON	1834	Co Waterford, Ireland	1901	Co Waterford, Ireland	67
Grandfather	Richard MADILL	abt 1845	Cootehill, Co Cavan, Ireland	1909	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	64
Grandmother	Elizabeth Cusine (Consine) MATHIE	1842	Gorbals, Lanarkshire, Scotland	1915	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	73
Father	Robert ARMSTRONG	Nov 1861	Comragh, Co. Waterford, Ireland	21 Feb 1942	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	80
Mother	Elizabeth Sarah Thompson MADILL	1871	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	07 Oct 1929	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	58
Self	Thomas Acheson ARMSTRONG	09 Jul 1891	Queensland, Australia	12 Oct 1917	Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium	26
Sister	Elizabeth ARMSTRONG	1894	Queensland, Australia
Sister	Ann ARMSTRONG	1896	Queensland, Australia	1896	Queensland, Australia	0
Sister	Eileen Mary ARMSTRONG	1902	Queensland, Australia
Sister	Grace May ARMSTRONG	1906	Queensland, Australia
Uncle	George ARMSTRONG	1858
Aunt	Mary Jane ARMSTRONG	1864	Co Waterford, Ireland	aft 1911		47
Aunt	Elizabeth ARMSTRONG	1868	Co Waterford, Ireland	1895	Co Waterford, Ireland	27
Aunt	Matilda Amelia (Mattie) (Martha) ARMSTRONG	04 Jun 1870	Co Waterford, Ireland	29 Jun 1925	Comeragh, Waterford, Ireland	55
Uncle	John HOBBS	30 Dec 1873	Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary, Ireland	02 Jan 1952	Comeragh, Waterford, Ireland	78
Uncle	Edward ARMSTRONG	abt 1873	Co Waterford, Ireland	1951	Queensland, Australia	78
Aunt	Josephine May (Mary) MADILL	1873	Queensland, Australia	1935	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	62
Uncle	William Samuel DAVIES	1867	Queensland, Australia	1955	Queensland, Australia	88
Aunt	Agnes Mathie MADILL	1875	Queensland, Australia	1953	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	78
Uncle	William Herbert Berwick CHRISTOE	1863	Orange, NSW, Australia	1934	Queensland, Australia	71
Aunt	Jane Akinson MADILL	1877	Queensland, Australia	1967	Queensland, Australia	90
Uncle	Samuel Douglas MCBRIDE			1927	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Uncle	John Kaven MADILL	31 Dec 1878	Queensland, Australia	1953	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	75
Aunt	Violet Gertrude BELL
Uncle	Joseph Wallace MADILL	29 Jan 1881	Queensland, Australia	1963	Queensland, Australia	82
Aunt	Christobel Olive May PERRY	1899	Queensland, Australia	1972	Queensland, Australia	73
Uncle	Richard Thompson MADILL	28 Aug 1883	Queensland, Australia	1884	Queensland, Australia	1
Cousin	John Henry (Harry) Armstrong HOBBS	28 May 1904	probably at Briska, Co. Waterford, Ireland	08 May 1969	Comeragh, Waterford, Ireland	64
Cousin	Thomas (Tom) HOBBS	1905	probably at Briska, Co. Waterford, Ireland	1992	Waterford, Ireland	87
Cousin	George HOBBS	1907	probably at Briska, Co. Waterford, Ireland	30 Jan 1962	Revelstoke, B.C., Canada	55
Cousin	John Stewart DAVIES	1904	Queensland, Australia	1963	Queensland, Australia	59
Cousin	Reginald Victor DAVIES	1907	Queensland, Australia
Cousin	Dorothy Cuisine Jean CHRISTOE	1901	Queensland, Australia
Cousin	Muriel Berrick Wallace CHRISTOE	1902	Queensland, Australia	1972	Queensland, Australia	70
Cousin	Richard Penrose CHRISTOE	1903	Queensland, Australia	1970	Queensland, Australia	67
Cousin	Isabel Lillian Edith CHRISTOE	1905	Queensland, Australia	1948	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	43
Cousin	Douglas Wallace MCBRIDE	1912	Queensland, Australia
Cousin	Olive May MADILL	1912	Queensland, Australia
Niece	Mavis Dawn ISBISTER	1920		1987		67
Niece	June Armstrong ISBISTER	19 Jun 1926	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	31 Jan 2002	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	75
Brother in Law	David ISBISTER	01 Apr 1888	Queensland, Australia	1962	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	74
Brother in Law	Alan William Hooper PHELPS	1896	Queensland, Australia	1953	Queensland, Australia	57
Brother in Law	Roy Perrier JONES

Events in Thomas Acheson ARMSTRONG (1891 - 1917)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
09 Jul 1891		Thomas Acheson ARMSTRONG was born	Queensland, Australia	Note 1	52
16 Mar 1916	24	Military Service	University of Sydney, NSW, Australia	Note 2	64
12 Oct 1917	26	Thomas Acheson ARMSTRONG died	Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium	Note 3	18, 64

Note 1: Qld Cert No 1891/C8089 NAA war record

Note 2: Thomas Acheson ARMSTRONG Date of birth 9 July 1891 Place of birth Mackay, Queensland School Townsville Grammar School, Queensland Religion Presbyterian Occupation University student Address University of Sydney, New South Wales Marital status Single Age at embarkation 24 Next of kin Father, R Armstrong, Boldon, Mackay, Queensland Previous military service Served 1 year in Sydney University Scouts and 2 1/2 years commissioned rank 26th Infantry Regiment, Citizen Military Forces. Enlistment date 16 March 1916 Rank on enlistment Lieutenant Unit name 33rd Battalion, C Company AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/50/1 Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A74 Marathon on 4 May 1916 Rank from Nominal Roll Lieutenant Unit from Nominal Roll 33rd Battalion Fate Killed in Action 12 October 1917 Place of death or wounding Flanders Age at death 26 Place of burial No known grave Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial 121

Note 3: KIA - Paschendale Qld Cert No 1922/F232 29 THe Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium Daily Mercury (Mackay) 12 Oct 1921 ARMSTRONG. — In proud and loving memory of our only son and bro- ther, Lieutenant Thomas Acheson Armstrong, who was killed in ac- tion at Pascheadaele on the 12th October, 1917. So let them rest ; the work so nobly done — A grander monument than marble tomb, The victory sure, which they so bravely won. Will shine for ever through the saddest gloom. A little while, and they will rise again, Responsive to that last long trum- pet sound, Then grief shall be effaced — no weep- ing then, For whereso'er they sleep is Hal- lowed Ground. (Inserted by his parents and sisters.) ARMSTRONG. — In memory of my dear nephew, Lieut. T. A. Arm- strong, who was killed in action at Paschendaele, on the 12th October, 1917. Our lips speak our words, And our smiles are for all men to see : But our hearts and our thoughts and our tears Are for thee; are for thee. (Inserted by M. Hobbs, Waterford, ********** Ireland.)

Source References:

18. Type: Vital Record, Abbr: Queensland bdm index, Title: Queensland bdm index

- Reference = (Death)

- Notes: KIA - Paschendale Qld Cert No 1922/F232

52. Type: Australia Birth Marriage Death Index 1787 - 1985 Record

- Reference = (Birth)

64. Type: Web Page, Abbr: AIF Project, Title: AIF Project, Auth: Australian Defence Forces http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au

- Reference = (Military Service)

- Notes: Thomas Acheson ARMSTRONG Date of birth 9 July 1891 Place of birth Mackay, Queensland School Townsville Grammar School, Queensland Religion Presbyterian Occupation University student Address University of Sydney, New South Wales Marital status Single Age at embarkation 24 Next of kin Father, R Armstrong, Boldon, Mackay, Queensland Previous military service Served 1 year in Sydney University Scouts and 2 1/2 years commissioned rank 26th Infantry Regiment, Citizen Military Forces. Enlistment date 16 March 1916 Rank on enlistment Lieutenant Unit name 33rd Battalion, C Company AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/50/1 Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A74 Marathon on 4 May 1916 Rank from Nominal Roll Lieutenant Unit from Nominal Roll 33rd Battalion Fate Killed in Action 12 October 1917 Place of death or wounding Flanders Age at death 26 Place of burial No known grave Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial 121

- Reference = (Death)

- Notes: Thomas Acheson ARMSTRONG Date of birth 9 July 1891 Place of birth Mackay, Queensland School Townsville Grammar School, Queensland Religion Presbyterian Occupation University student Address University of Sydney, New South Wales Marital status Single Age at embarkation 24 Next of kin Father, R Armstrong, Boldon, Mackay, Queensland Previous military service Served 1 year in Sydney University Scouts and 2 1/2 years commissioned rank 26th Infantry Regiment, Citizen Military Forces. Enlistment date 16 March 1916 Rank on enlistment Lieutenant Unit name 33rd Battalion, C Company AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/50/1 Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A74 Marathon on 4 May 1916 Rank from Nominal Roll Lieutenant Unit from Nominal Roll 33rd Battalion Fate Killed in Action 12 October 1917 Place of death or wounding Flanders Age at death 26 Place of burial No known grave Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial 121

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