Full name Matthew Armstrong Years Team Position Wing half Playing position Died July 12, 1941 | Role English footballer Date of birth 1918/1919 Name Matthew Armstrong | |
Date of death 12 July 1941(1941-07-12) (aged 22) | ||
Place of birth High Spen, England | ||
Matthew Armstrong (1918 or 1919 – 12 July 1941) was an English footballer who made 38 appearances in the Football League playing as a wing half for Darlington in the 1930s. He joined Aston Villa in 1939 – a preview in the Daily Express highlighted him as one of "two young defenders who look as if they have that certain Soccer something" – but he never played for Villa's first team before the league was abandoned for the duration of the Second World War.
Armstrong died on active service on 12 July 1941, aged 22, while serving in the Middle East as a private with 149 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. He is commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial.
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