Morpeth Herald 10/08/1917 carries a brief obituary:
MORPETH SOLDIER DIES FROM WOUNDS
Councillor Isaac Armstrong and Mrs Armstrong, of Alexandra Road, Morpeth, received the sad news last Sunday morning from the matron of one of the casualty clearing stations at the Front that their son, Private Edwin Armstrong, aged 20, of the Grenadier Guards, had been severely wounded in the thigh.
He never regained consciousness, and died a few days later.
On Wednesday they received the official notification from the War Office stating that Private Edwin Armstrong had died from wounds [received] in action. Enclosed was a message of sympathy from the King and Queen.
The deceased had been over two years in the Army. He was wounded in September last, and returned to the Front in May this year.
He was a promising young man, and prior to enlisting was a clerk in the Town Clerk’s Office, Morpeth.
He received his early education at the Council Schools under the late Ald. R.J. Carr, headmaster. He entered the Morpeth Grammar School in September, 2010, with a County Council scholarship, and some three years later passed his Oxford Junior Local Examination.
He played in [the] school cricket XI, in 1912 and 1913, and proved a very promising cricketer. He also took a great interest in the school sports and was a keen competitor while there, and was a member of the Cadet Unit. His interest was also centred in the Boys’ Brigade.
This is the second son that Mr [sic] and Mrs Armstrong have lost in six months, and we feel sure that the sympathy of the townspeople will go out to them in their time of bereavement.
Edwin Armstrong is remembered at Morpeth on M17.01 M17.02 M17.06 M17.09 M17.12 and M17.29
