Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Armstrong, Commissariat Department and Army Service Corps
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (Dep. C. Genl., Commst. dept.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (A.C. Genl., C.&T.S.) minor correction to unit on first, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2)

Francis hugh Armstrong joined the Commissariat Department as D.A.C.G. in February 1861. He served in the New Zealand war 1864-66; in the Egyptian war of 1882, and also in the Soudan campaign in 1885. He became Assistant Commissary General in January 1880, Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1885, and Lieutenant-Colonel in the Reserve of Officers in December 1888. Part of a family group, see lot 91.