Alec Armstrong
This name is on Holy Trinity WW1 Memorial, London SW4
Tentative identification. The memorial gives Alec M. Armstrong. However, Soldiers Died in the Great War has an Alec Armstrong, and the CWGC has an Alec Laurance Armstrong, with matching data (given below).
Service no. M2/077684
Private, Army Service Corps, 1st A.O.C.
Died on 9 June 1917, aged 19
CWGC: "Son of John Harold and Florence Mabel Armstrong, of Waterworks, P.W.D., Accia [Accra?], West Africa. Born at Stoke Gifford, Bristol."
Born in Bristol, lived in Clapham, enlisted in London
Remembered at Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Information from the 1901 census
In 1901, Alec Armstrong was 3 and living at 5 Overcliff Road, Lewisham, south-east London, with his father, John Harold Armstrong, 29, a civil engineer born in Gravesend, Kent, and mother Florence Mabel Armstrong, 29, from Wells in Somerset. Alec, born in Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, was one of three children, the others being:
John Armstrong, 4, born in Glamorgan, Wales
Cynthia Armstrong, 1, born in Lewisham
The family had a live-in servant.
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 the family was living at 8 Culmstock Road, Battersea, an 8-roomed house. The three children were all at school and Florence Mabel Armstrong, 37, gave her occupation as Votes for Women. The family had a live-in domestic servant, Ethel Bowen, from Bourne in Gloucestershire. John Harold Armstrong may have been working in Africa. He is listed as arriving in Liverpool on 30 April 1918 having travelled from the Gold Coast. He gave his address as 103 Altenburg Gardens, Lavender Hill.