Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Date of Enlistment
- 25/06/1942
- Date of Discharge
- 30/10/1945
- Place of Enlistment
- Noonamah, Northern Territory
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 23/06/1918
- Place of Birth
- Cooma NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- North Ainslie ACT
- School(s) Attended
- Telopea Park Intermediate High School (1937- )
- Occupation
- Barman
- Next of Kin
- Harold Armstrong (father), Cowper Street, Ainslie ACT
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- NX133130
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 19 Australian Infantry Battalion
Notes
Darcy Armstrong moved to Canberra from Cooma with his family when he was a young boy. He attended Telopea Park School but was working as a barman at the Volunteer Hotel in Sydney when he was mobilised on 25 October 1940. He enlisted in the AIF in June 1942 with the 19th Battalion and served in Darwin for nearly two years after being mobilised. Armstrong was sent to Papua in 1943 but contracted malaria and returned to Australia in June 1944. Shortly afterwards he married Peggy Burke and he then served with 19 Battalion fighting the Japanese on New Britain. He returned to Australia in May 1945 and was discharged in October. After the war he and his wife lived at the Causeway before moving to Narrabundah and he worked as a plasterer around Canberra. Armstrong died at the Aranda Nursing Home on 20 December 2006.
Sources
WWII Nominal Roll http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
Ann Gugler, 'True tales from Canberra's vanished suburbs of Westlake, Westridge & Acton', 1999 (p.164)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B883
The Canberra Times - 4 December 1936, 23 December 2006