ARMSTRONG, Walter Launcelot
Walter Launcelot Armstrong was born at Caterham, Surrey on 3 February 1876, eldest son of Sir Walter Armstrong (7 February 1850–8 August 1918), Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, and his wife Emily Rose Ferard (1852-15 August 1923), eldest daughter of Charles Cotton Ferard, of Ascot, Berkshire, who married at Hove Church, Sussex on 11 June 1873, Emily was born overseas. Young Walter was educated at Westminster School 1889-1893 for whom he played and excelled at cricket. He joined the army and as a private (28309) serving in the Rand Rifles during the 1899-1902 Boer War and then served in the First World War and awarded the Military Cross on 1 January 1917 and promoted to acting Captain and at the end of hostilities retired from the army with the acting rank of major. He had married at Paddington, London on 21 July 1914, Laura Joseph (1876-14 August 1955), youngest daughter of Samuel Solomon Joseph, of London. On his retirement from the army, they came to Suffolk and Walter took up painting and was a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club 1923-1943 and exhibited from Bridge House, Grundisburgh, Suffolk in 1936, a watercolour 'Rail Walk, Sutton Heath'. Walter Launcelot Armstrong died at Bridge House, Grundisburgh on 26 April 1944, aged 68.