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spoons
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Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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 Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject: Lt Col Armitage, Challoch |
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Not listed on UKNIWM
Location, in Challoch (Episcopal) church churchyard at OS Map Ref NX 385 675
This is an original WW1 battlefield cross that has been placed in the churchyard as a memorial.
Name: ARMITAGE, FRANCIS ARTHUR WILLIAM
Initials: F A W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Regiment/Service: West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Secondary Regiment: Hampshire Regiment
Secondary Unit Text: Commanding 1st Bn.
Age: 34
Date of Death: 22/04/1918
Awards: D S O
Additional information: Son of Arthur Calrow Armitage and Alice Barbara Armitage, of Kirroughtree, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire; husband of Eileen P. R. Armitage (nee Day), of Ivy Cottage, Whittington, Lichfield, Staffs.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: A. 25.
Cemetery: GONNEHEM BRITISH CEMETERY
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