Lieutenant Harold Martin Soames, 20th Hussars
Friend of the Armstrong family from Colchester, Essex. Shot through the chest while on reconnaissance duty near Binche, and died a few hours later on 23 August 1914, aged 27. Buried at Hautrage Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Captain Gerrard Loundes Edward Sherlock, 3rd Hussars
Friend of the Armstrong family. Killed in action in Togoland on 25 August 1914, aged 30. No known grave. Commemorated at Zaria Memorial, Nigeria.
Lieutenant Sir Robert Cornwallis ‘Bob’ Maude Viscount Hawarden, Coldstream Guards
Mrs Armstrong’s cousin. Killed by a shell at Landrecies on the night of 25-26 August 1914, aged 23. Buried at Landrecies Communal Cemetery, France.
Lieutenant Roger Owen Birbeck Wakefield, Royal Irish Fusiliers
Friend of the Armstrong family from County Westmeath. Died 28 August 1914, aged 22, of wounds received two days earlier during an offensive near Haucourt. Buried at Caudry Old Communal Cemetery, France.
Major Victor Reginald Brooke, 9th Lancers
Friend of the Armstrong family. Died in hospital at Compiègne on 29 August 1914 from wounds received in action during the retreat from Mons, aged 41. Buried at Annel Communal Cemetery, France.
Lieutenant Frederick de Vere Bruce Allfrey, 9th Lancers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Shot dead while assisting a wounded brother officer near Provins on 6 September 1914, aged 22. Buried at Fretoy Communal Cemetery, France.
Captain Bertrand Stewart, West Kent Yeomanry
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed while on patrol near the village of Braisne on 12 September 1914, aged 42. Buried at Braine Communal Cemetery, France.
Captain Gerald Hugh Fitzgerald, 4th Dragoon Guards
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Shot through the head in the Battle of the Aisne while in charge of a machine gun section 13 September 1914, aged 28. Buried at Bourg-et-Comin Communal Cemetery, France.
Captain Douglas Keith Lucas Lucas-Tooth, 9th Lancers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Hit in the head by shrapnel during the Battle of the Aisne on 14 September 1914, aged 33. Buried at Moulins New Communal Cemetery, France.
Lieutenant John ‘Jack’ Eden, 12th Lancers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed while on cavalry patrol duty near Wervecq on 17 October 1914, aged 26. Buried at Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, Belgium.
2nd Lieutenant Douglas Lennox ‘Lenny’ Harvey, 9th Lancers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed by a shell in the trenches on 2 November 1914, aged 22. Buried at Dranouter Churchyard, Belgium.
Major the Hon. William George Sydney ‘Willie’ Cadogan, 10th Hussars
Officer in Pat Armstrong’s regiment. Killed in action during the First Battle of Ypres on 12 November 1914, aged 35. Buried at Ypres Town Cemetery, Belgium.
Regimental Sergeant Major Edward James King, 10th Hussars
Officer in Pat Armstrong’s regiment. Killed in action during the First Battle of Ypres on 12 November 1914, aged 41. Buried at Ypres Town Cemetery, Belgium.
Captain the Hon. Arthur ‘Pic’ Annesley, 10th Hussars
Officer in Pat Armstrong’s regiment. Killed by a sniper at Klein Zillebeke on 16 November 1914, aged 34. Buried at Ypres Town Cemetery, Belgium.
Lieutenant Robert Flint ‘Bob’ Drake, 10th Hussars
Officer in Pat Armstrong’s regiment. Killed in action during the First Battle of Ypres on 17 November 1914, aged 22. Buried at Ypres Town Cemetery, Belgium.
Captain Clement Henry ‘The Rabbit’ Peto, 10th Hussars
Officer in Pat Armstrong’s regiment. Shot through the head by a sniper while leading his squadron in pursuit of the retreating enemy at the First Battle of Ypres on 17 November 1914, aged 30. Buried at Ypres Town Cemetery, Belgium.
Captain the Hon. Francis Reginald Denis Prittie, Rifle Brigade
Friend of the Armstrong family from County Tipperary. Killed during an attack on German House, a fortified building within the German trench system near Ploegsteert Wood on 19 December 1914, aged 34. Buried at Rifle House Cemetery, Belgium.
2nd Lieutenant Robert Wilfred Raleigh Gramshaw, Royal Sussex Regiment
Friend of the Armstrong family. Died 27 January 1915, aged 24, of wounds he had received two days previously while leading his platoon in an attack on the German trenches at La Bassée. Buried at Bethune Town Cemetery, France.
Lieutenant Thomas Musgrave, Irish Guards
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed in action on 6 February 1915, aged 26. Buried at Cuinchy Communal Cemetery, France.
2nd Lieutenant Geoffrey Mark Penn, Rifle Brigade
Friend of the Armstrong family. Killed by a sniper while directing trench works near Pleogsteert, Flanders on 11 February 1915, aged 28. Buried at Rifle House Cemetery, Belgium.
Lieutenant Rowland Auriol James ‘Jim’ Beech, 16th Lancers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Shot in the head while bringing up his men into a communication trench near Ypres on 21 February 1915, aged 26. Buried at Ypres Town Cemetery, Belgium.
Lieutenant David Ronald Cross, 16th Lancers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Believed killed in action near Ypres on 21 February 1915, aged 25. No known grave. Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Lieutenant Nathaniel Walter Ryder King, 16th Lancers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed when his trench was blown up by three mines near Ypres on 21 February 1915, aged 27. Buried at Ypres Town Cemetery, Belgium.
Captain Edward Radcliffe-Nash, 16th Lancers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed when his trench was blown up by three mines near Ypres on 21 February 1915, aged 26. Buried at Ypres Town Cemetery, Belgium.
Major Arundell Neave, 16th Lancers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Fatally wounded while leading his squadron into action near Ypres on 21 February 1915, and died the same day, aged 39. Buried at Ypres Town Cemetery, Belgium.
Lieutenant Kenneth Sinclair-Thomson, 21st Prince Albert Victor’s Own Cavalry (Frontier Force)
Kitty O’Neill’s brother. Shot through the heart at Nakaila near Basra while endeavouring to save his gun during a cavalry reconnaissance on 3 March 1915, aged 28. Buried at Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.
Lieutenant Eric Gilbey, Rifle Brigade
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong, Killed during the battle of Neuve Chapelle while assisting a fallen soldier on 12 March 1915, aged 27. Buried at Neuve-Chapelle British Cemetery, France.
Captain Francis Arthur Harboe Castberg, Middlesex Regiment
Friend of the Armstrong family. Shot in the face and lungs at Neuve Chapelle on 10 March 1915, and died of his wounds three days later, aged 26. Buried at Merville Communal Cemetery, France.
Captain Edward John McNeill ‘Ned’ Penrose, Royal Irish Fusiliers
Jess Armstrong’s sweetheart. Believed killed in action on 25 April 1915 in the Second Battle of Ypres, aged 27. No known grave. Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Lieutenant Thomas Edward ‘Teddy’ Brooks, Leicestershire Yeomanry
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed by a sniper in a trench at Frezenberg on 13 May 1915, aged 32. Buried at Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery, Belgium.
Lieutenant John Harvey ‘Jimmy’ Leckie, 1st (Royal) Dragoons
Pat Armstrong’s friend from his Cavalry School days. Killed during heavy shelling in the Second Battle of Ypres on 13 May 1915, aged 25. No known grave. Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Major Clement Bertram Ogilvy ‘Clem’ Mitford, 10th Hussars
Officer in Pat Armstrong’s regiment. Killed in the Second Battle of Ypres on 13 May 1915, aged 38. Buried at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Captain Gerald Charles ‘Jorrocks’ Stewart, 10th Hussars
Officer in Pat Armstrong’s regiment. Killed in the Second Battle of Ypres on 13 May 1915, aged 28. Buried at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Captain Maurice Arthur de Tuyll, 10th Hussars
Officer in Pat Armstrong’s regiment. Hit by a shell in the grounds of Potijze Chateau on 13 May 1915, aged 26. Buried at Potijze Chateau Grounds Cemetery, Belgium.
Lieutenant Colonel Eustace Robert Ambrose ‘Shaver’ Shearman, 10th Hussars
Officer in Pat Armstrong’s regiment. Killed in the Second Battle of Ypres on 13 May 1915, aged 39. Buried at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Captain Francis Octavius Grenfell, 9th Lancers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong; recipient of the Victoria Cross. Killed in action on 24 May 1915, aged 35. Buried at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Captain William Hubert Roylance ‘Algy’ Court, 9th Lancers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Shot through the head in a trench near Hooge while communicating by telephone with the Base on 24 May 1915, aged 29. Buried at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Captain Collingwood Lindsay Wood, 18th Hussars
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed in action in Flanders near Hooge on 24 May 1915, aged 33. Buried at Birr Cross Roads Cemetery, Belgium.
Captain Arthur Noel Edwards, 9th Lancers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Died on 25 May 1915 as a result of a poison gas attack, aged 31. Buried at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Captain Clement Jesse Harter, Royal Fusiliers
Friend of the Armstrong family. Killed while leading his platoon at Hooge during the Second Battle of Ypres on 16 June 1915, aged 26. No known grave. Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Major Raymond Sheffield Hamilton-Grace, 13th Hussars
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed in a motor accident while on active service in Flanders on 4 August 1915, aged 34. Buried at Nieppe-Bois (Rue-du-Bois) British Cemetery, France.
Captain William Thomas Kedie, Black Watch
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed in action in Gallipoli, probably at the Battle of Scimitar Hill, Suvla, on 21 August 1915, aged 33. No known grave. Commemorated on Helles Memorial, Turkey.
Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Peniston Milbanke, Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers)
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong; recipient of the Victoria Cross. Killed in action during the Battle of Scimitar Hill in Gallipoli on 21 August 1915, aged 42. No known grave. Commemorated on Helles Memorial, Turkey.
Captain Charles William D’Arcy-Irvine, Leinster Regiment
Friend of the Armstrong family. Missing and believed killed in action in the Dardanelles between 6 and 12 August 1915, aged 30. No known grave. Commemorated on Helles Memorial, Turkey
Captain Arthur Corbett Edwards, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Friend of the Armstrong family. Believed killed in action during the Battle of Loos between 25 and 27 September 1915, aged 44. No known grave. Commemorated on Loos Memorial, France.
Major Philip Granville Mason, Dragoon Guards
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed by a shell while defending a captured German trench near Loos, France, on 26 September 1915, aged 43. Buried at Vermelles British Cemetery, France.
Captain Alister Hillyar Darby Chapman, 1st (Royal) Dragoons
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed in action in Pas de Calais, France, on 27 September 1915, aged 33. Buried at Noeux-les-Mines Communal Cemetery, France.
Captain James Harold Cuthbert, Scots Guards
Friend of the Armstrong family. Killed in action during the Battle of Loos whilst leading the right flank company of which he was in command on 27 September 1915, aged 39. No known grave. Commemorated on Loos Memorial, France.
Lieutenant Geoffrey Levenson Ion Murray-Smith, Royal Fusiliers
Friend of the Armstrong family. Killed during the Battle of Loos on 29 September 1915, aged 19. No known grave. Commemorated on Loos Memorial, France
Brigadier General Frank Wormald, General Staff
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed by shrapnel while inspecting frontline trenches at Vermelles on 3 October 1915, aged 47. Buried at Nedonchel Churchyard, Pas de Calais, France.
Major Vere de Hoghton, Lincolnshire Regiment
Friend of the Armstrong family. Killed in action during the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt on 13 October 1915, aged 33. No known grave. Commemorated on Loos Memorial, France.
Captain Eric Frank Penn, Grenadier Guards
Friend of the Armstrong family. Killed in action at the Hohenzollern Redoubt on 18 October 1915, aged 33. Buried at Vermelles British Cemetery, France.
2nd Lieutenant Reginald Bertram Lambourne, Hampshire Regiment
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Wounded in Gallipoli on 4 January 1916 and died of his wounds on the following day, aged 20. Buried at Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey.
Captain Alfred William ‘Buck’ Waterhouse, 1st (Royal) Dragoons
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed in action in Vermelles on 12 January 1916, aged 26. Buried at Vermelles British Cemetery, France.
Captain John Newman Kidd, (6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed in action in Vermelles on 19 January 1916, aged 35. Buried at Vermelles British Cemetery, France.
Captain John George Harter, Durham Light Infantry
Friend of the Armstrong family. Fatally wounded near Ypres when his left leg was practically severed by a shell on 3 April 1916, and died a few hours later following an amputation, aged 27. Buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Captain the Honourable Jocelyne Charles William Savile Foljambe, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Friend of the Armstrong family. Killed in action in Basra on 6 April 1916, aged 34. No known grave. Commemorated at Basra Memorial, Iraq.
Captain Alexander Gordon Cowie, Seaforth Highlanders
Friend of the Armstrong family. Died of wounds at Amara, Mesopotamia, on 7 April 1916, aged 27. Buried at Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.
Captain Leslie St Clair Cheape, 1st (King’s) Dragoon Guards
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed while commanding a squadron of the Worcestershire Yeomanry in Palestine on 23 April 1916, aged 33. Commemorated at Jerusalem Memorial, Israel and Palestine.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Campbell Pierce, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed while his battalion, in the 87th Brigade, was attacking the German line in front of Beaumont-Hamel on 1 July 1916, aged 47. Buried at Ancre British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel, France.
Captain George Alastair Sinclair-Thomson, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Kitty O’Neill’s brother. Killed in the Battle of the Somme on 21 July 1916, aged 24. Buried at Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Private Denis Ryan, Irish Guards
Armstrong family’s tenant at Moyaliffe, County Tipperary. Killed in the Battle of the Somme on 15 September 1916, aged 20. No known grave. Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, France.
Brigadier General Walter Long, General Staff
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed in action at Hébuterne on 27 January 1917, aged 37. Buried at Couin British Cemetery, France.
Captain Joseph Leslie Dent, South Staffordshire Regiment
Pat Armstrong’s friend from his time at Sandhurst. Killed in action in the Battle of Arras on 11 April 1917, aged 28. Buried at Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery, France.
Brigadier General Charles Gosling, General Staff
Friend of the Armstrong family. Killed by a shell on 12 April 1917, aged 48. Buried at Hervin Farm British Cemetery, France.
Lieutenant Colonel Meredith Magniac, Lancashire Fusiliers
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed when a communication trench he was sitting in at Monchy-le-Preux was struck by a shell on 25 April 1917, aged 36. Buried at Beaurains Road Cemetery, France.
2nd Lieutenant William Robert Brown Caseby, Royal Scots
Officer friendly with Pat Armstrong. Killed when a communication trench he was sitting in at Monchy-le-Preux was struck by a shell on 25 April 1917, aged 21. No known grave. Commemorated at Arras Memorial, France.
2nd Lieutenant the Hon. George Seymour Dawson-Damer, 10th Hussars
Officer in Pat Armstrong’s regiment. Killed in a cavalry charge at Monchy, near Arras, on 12 April 1917, aged 24. Buried at Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Lieutenant Osmond ‘Mush’ Mowatt, 10th Hussars
Officer in Pat Armstrong’s regiment. Wounded in a cavalry charge at Monchy de Preux on 11 April and died of his wounds at a casualty clearing station on 22 April 1917, aged 36. Buried at Duisans British Cemetery, France.
Captain William Maurice ‘Pat’ Armstrong, 10th Hussars
Mrs Armstrong’s only son. Shot by a sniper while inspecting his troops in a frontline trench in Arras on 23 May 1917, aged 27. Buried at Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery, France.
2nd Lieutenant Frank Stanley Layard, Border Regiment
Pat Armstrong’s protégé. Missing in action east of Monchy-le-Preux on 19 May 1917. His body was found and identified during the clearance of the battlefields in 1920. Buried at Dury Crucifix Cemetery, France.
Captain Gordon Daubeney Gresley Elton, Royal Irish Fusiliers
Pat Armstrong’s closest friend. Hit by a shell which pierced his heart on 5 November 1917, aged 29. Buried at Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station Cemetery, Belgium.
Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude, General Staff
Mrs Armstrong’s first cousin. Died from cholera in Mesopotamia on 18 November 1917, aged 53. Buried in the Maude Tomb at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq.
Lieutenant Colonel Harold Echalaz Welch, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
Mrs Armstrong’s brother-in-law. Killed by a piece of shrapnel while moving towards Mezieres through enemy artillery fire on 29 March 1918, aged 39. Buried at Bouchoir New British Cemetery, France.