Private Joshua Armstrong

Army Number: 102946 (formerly 203838 East Lancashire Regiment)

Battalion: 10th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Blackburn, Lancashire. Son of James Jackson Armstrong and Mary Alice Armstrong, of 8, Eccles Street, Blackburn; husband of Sarah Jane Hoyle (formerly Armstrong), of 21, Cowling Road., Chorley. He was a driver prior to enlisting at Blackburn on 18th December 1915. He went to France on 14th September 1917 and contracted nephritis being admitted to No. 14 General Hospital, Wimereux, France 12th November 1917. After being transferred to England, he was treated at Berrington War Hospital, Shrewsbury. He returned to France on 23rd May 1918 and was posted to the 10th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 31st August 1918. He was gassed by a mustard gas shell on 24th October 1918 and was treated at No. 20 General Hospital, Camiers, France, and was sent to England via Hospital Ship ” Brighton”. He was admitted to De Walden Court Hospital, Eastbourne, on 25th October 1918 and died, 4th November 1918, aged 26, from bronchial pneumonia as a subsequence of the gas poisoning.

Buried Blackburn Cemetery, Lancashire. D. N.C. 3718