Francis Arthur William Armitage. D.S.O

Francis Arthur William Armitage. D.S.O.

Born 12 SEP 1883 at Balmae, Co Kirkcudbright to Arthur Calrow and Alice Barbara Armitage, nee Morris of Kirroughtree, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire.
1891 aged 7 years at the home of his aunt and uncle Edith Adele and Joshua Hirst Wheatley at Berkswell Hall, The Park, Berkswell Warwickshire. 1901 he was boarder at a Private school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. 1911 aged 27, single, Lieutenant with the 1st West Yorkshire Regiment in India
Husband to Eileen Constance Rouviere Day who he married in 1915 at Lichfield, Staffordshire.

Died 22 April 1918 aged 34 at Pacaut Wood in the German offences on the Lys, France. At rest Gonnehem, France

London Gazette dated 21 October 1902.
The Prince of Wales Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), Francis Arthur William Armitage.
Alan Sauer Auret, in succession to Lieutenant A. W. McRae resigned

London Gazette dated 29 October 1915
The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment). Captain F. A. W. Armitage to be Adjutant. Dated 26th June, 1915.

London Gazette dated 21 July 1916
Capt. F. A. W. Armitage, West York Regt., to be temp. Major. 16th June 1916

London Gazette Supplement dated 8 November 1916
W. York. R.—Capt. F. A. W. Armitage to be acting Lt.-Col. whilst comdg. a Bn., Hamps Regt. 22nd Aug. 1916.

London Gazette Supplement dated 30 October 1917.
West York. Regt.—The undermentioned Capts. to be Majors. '22nd Oct. 1917: —
F. A. W. Armitage. and others

Awarded DSO 9 April 1917
Citation. He commanded his battalion with utmost skill and determination. Subject to heavy shellfire throughout, he remained in close touch with the enemy counter-attack and held on until relieved.

Wills and Admin, Ancestry.
Francis Arthur William Armitage of Ivy Cottage, Whittington Lichfield, Lieutenant Colonel Hampshire regiment D.S.O. died 22 April 1918 in France on active service. His effects went to his widow.