[5] Following the loss of Hampshire's first-class status, he continued to play second-class cricket for the county until 1889.
[6] Armstrong lived in Southampton until 1889 or 1890, working in a cousin's lamp and oil shop in St. Mary's Street.
He married in 1889 and then moved to London to work with his brothers in a wholesale fruit business.
He had two children, a boy and a girl and in 1913 returned to Hampshire, where was the proprietor of a wool shop.
[7] Following his death at Bournemouth in the first quarter of 1942, his daughter gave an album of press cuttings and badges to the Hampshire Cricket Museum.