Person:Hilliard Armstrong (1)

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Hilliard R Armstrong
d.14 Nov 1917 Scotland
Facts and Events
Name[3] Hilliard R Armstrong
Gender Male
Birth[4] 10 Aug 1896 Markdale, Grey, Ontario, Canada
Military[4] 8 Aug 1916 Camp Borden, Simcoe, Ontario, Canadacompleted his medical and signed his attestation papers
Death[5][6] 14 Nov 1917 Scotland2nd Lieut H.M. Armstrong, R.F.C., and 2nd Lieut E. Hughes, R.F.C., were killed on November 14th in an aeroplane collision above the railway line between Corstorphine and the Firth of Forth. The machines were flying at a considerable height when they came into collision and took fire.
Burial[7][8] Comely Bank Cemetery, City of Edinburgh, Scotland
References
  1.   Elizabeth B. Boone.
  2.   Edited by Sara SHELDON (Née SMITH). Descendants of George Boone and Martha Rees. (Family Genealogy based initially upon the work of James Howard BINNS (1894-1987)).
  3. Rorke, Richard, and Phyllis Knight Armstrong. Forty years in the forest, reminiscences from the pen of a backwoodsman, 1820-1868: a vivid account of pioneer days in early Ontario, Tecumsah Township (1820-1848), Collingwood Township (1848-1868). (Tecumseth, Ontario: Tecumseth and West Gwillimbury Historical Society, c1987)
    Page 153.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Hilliard Armstrong, in Canada. Soldiers of the First World War. (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada)
    1916.

    Name: Hilliard Armstrong
    RESIDENCE: Markdale, Ontario
    Birth Date: 10 Aug 1896
    Birth Location: Markdale, Grey County, Ontario
    Relative: Mark A Armstrong
    Relationship: Father
    Regiment Number: 839139

  5. Lieutenant Hilliard Mark Armstrong, in Canadian Great War Project.

    Second Lieutenant Hilliard Mark Armstrong
    Died: November 14, 1917

  6. Great War Forum - Eric Hughes RFC.

    Fatal Accidents

    Fatal Accidents
    2nd Lieut H.M. Armstrong, R.F.C., and 2nd Lieut E. Hughes, R.F.C., were killed on November 14th in an aeroplane collision above the railway line between Corstorphine and the Firth of Forth. The machines were flying at a considerable height when they came into collision and took fire.

  7. Second Lieutenant Hilliard Mark Armstrong, in Find A Grave.
  8. Edinburgh (Comely Bank) Cemetery, in The Commonwealth War Graves Commission.