Darwin War Museum Quilt - Reginald Stanley Armstrong - by Barb Surrey

Reginald Stanley Armstrong was born in 1919 to a farming family in Strathbogie.  He grew up with a love of everything mechanical.  As a young man he joined the Royal Australian Airforce early in the Second World War.

Following training in Victoria, he was moved to Darwin where he worked on our Air Force fighting planes.  The threat of Japan attacking Australia was realised when their war planes flew in to bomb Darwin.  Dad was fortunate to be able to continue his work safely and was eventually moved to a very large airforce base at Tocumwal on the Murray River near Cobram.

Moves were made some ten to fifteen years ago to obtain the rank, name and serial numbers of all our servicemen who served in Darwin and their patches have been stitched into a large quilt hanging on a wall in the Darwin War Museum.

Dad and his brothers served our country well in World War 2 following on from their father, my Pop, who served in Gallipoli and the south of France in World War 1.

We are proud of them all.

Patches in the quilt showing the rank, name and serial number
of all our servicemen who served in Darwin.