Lot 2110

Description

Trio: New Zealand Medal (Dep C Genl F H Armstrong Commst Dept); Egypt Medal 1882 - Suakin 1885 (A C Genl F H Armstrong C & TS); Khedives Egypt Star 1882. First medal impressed, second engraved, third unnamed as issued. Very fine.

Ex DNW (London) June 1997. With service record. Francis Hugh Armstrong was born in 1840 and commissioned as Deputy Assistant Commissary General in February 1861. He saw service in the Commissariat Department in New Zealand and was based around the Auckland area. He did spend a short period of time in Taranaki and it was there, on 25 July 1866, that he married 17 year old Ellen Anne Shuttleworth. Armstrong himself was 26 at the time. Following his return to England Armstrong remained in the Commissariat Department . On 30 January 1880, whilst serving in Cyprus, he was promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissary General in the Transport Department Staff. Armstrong saw active service with the Commissariat and Transport Staff during the Egypt Campaign of 1882 and later during the Suakin Campaign (also Egypt) in March, April and May 1885. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Service Corps on 11 December 1888 and likely spent the remainder of his career based at Gosport. He retired in 1891 or 1892 having therefore served an impressive 30 years.