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Died: 12th of October 1917. Killed in Action Passchendaele, Belgium.
Mother: Elizabeth Sarah Thompson Armstrong. nee:.
Thomas Acheson Armstrong enlisted with C Company 33rd Battalion AIF on the 16th of March
1916 and was an original member of the Battalion and left Sydney on board HMAT A74 "Marathon" on
the 4th of May 1916. Thomas was Killed in Action at Passchendaele,
Belgium on the 12th of October 1917 and is remembered with honour and is commemerated in
perpetuity by the Commonweath War Graves Commission, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Belgium.
As for the Australians, of the two battalions that Monash had now ordered to participate, the
39th had already to a large extent been involved in the fighting, and the 33rd, endevouring to
reach its position of readiness for outflanking Passchendaele, had suffered great loss. No less
than 6 of its Officers were killed or mortally wounded. Captain Wilfred
Frank Hinton,in command of the forward company, Lieutenant Leonard
Rockley Brownlow, Lieutenant Thomas Acheson Armstrong,
Lieutenant Albert George Kilpatrick
Lieutenant William Rees-Reynolds and Lieutenant Norman Francis Goble.
(BEAN; History of World War 1, Vol IV page 921)
Thomas was a single 24 year old University Student from Sydney New South Wales upon enlistment.
His parents lived at Bolden, Mackay, Queensland. Thomas served with the 26th infantry Malitia
prior to World War 1. He also served as a Lieutenat with the Sydney University Scouts.
(Australian National Archives)
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