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Identity
Person No.
664
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
D'urban Victor
Initials
D U V
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Killed while stunting
Military Service
Rank
Captain
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British forces
Notes

Son of George Shearer Armstrong and Edith Armstrong, of "Highwoods," 167, Springfield Rd., Durban, South Africa. Credited with 5 victories. Educated at Hilton College, Natal. His brother Athol Langford Armstrong also died in service.

Citations

LG Sup 3 December 1918 - "A brilliant pilot of exceptional skill. His success in night operations has been phenomenal; and the services he renders in training other pilots is of the greatest value, personally supervising their flying and demonstrating the only successful method of attack by night. On the night of 10-11th September, learning that an enemy aeroplane was over our front, he volunteered to go up. The weather conditions were such as to render flying almost impossible, the wind blowing about fifty miles an hour, accompanied by driving rainstorms; despite this, Capt. Armstrong remained on patrol for over an hour, his machine at times being practically out of control. The foregoing is only one of many instances of this officer's remarkable skill and resolution in night operations."

LG Sup 3 December 1918 p.14465
LG Sup 3 December 1918 p.14465
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