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Lieutenant Colonel FRANCIS ARTHUR WILLIAM ARMITAGE

Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 April 1918

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GONNEHEM BRITISH CEMETERY

A. 25.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment Commanding 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order, 5 times Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info 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.
  • Personal Inscription HE ASKED LIFE OF THEE AND THOU GAVEST IT HIM FOR EVER AND EVER
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