| Matthew Armstrong | |
| Fullname: | Matthew Armstrong |
| Birth Date: | 1919 1, df=y[1] |
| Birth Place: | High Spen, County Durham, England |
| Height: | [2] |
| Position: | Wing half |
| Youthyears1: | – |
| Years1: | 1936–1939 |
| Caps1: | 38 |
| Goals1: | 2 |
| Years2: | 1939–19?? |
| Caps2: | 0 |
| Goals2: | 0 |
Matthew Armstrong (26 January 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.[3] 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"[4] – but he never played for Villa's first team before the league was abandoned for the duration of the Second World War.[3] [5]
Armstrong was killed during the Second World War while serving as a private in 149 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. He was 22, and is commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial.[6]