Richard was one of the first Maghull men to die in the war, leaving a widow, Mary Jane, and three small children. The family lived at Bank Cottage on Green Lane. He had seen service before the war, returning upon its outbreak and transferring from the Lancashire Fusilliers to the South Lancashire Regiment. With blue eyes, brown hair, a 37 inch chest and a magnificent moustache, Corporal Armstrong cut a fine figure. He was killed by a stray shell. He has no known grave but his name is one of 54,000 engraved on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium.
