Career
A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played first-class cricket for several teams between 1919 and 1933. Armitage made his first-class debut in August 1919, for Hampshire in a County Championship match against Essex, playing three more County Championship matches that month. He played just once in 1920, against Leicestershire.
In 1921 he played twice for Hampshire, against Oxford University and Kent.
And twice for the Army, against Cambridge University and Oxford University. In 1924, after a first-class match for the Army against Cambridge University, he played two matches for the Master Control Console against his native Ireland, in Dublin and Belfast.
He played for the Army against Oxford University and the Royal Navy in 1925, a season in which he played his final first-class match for Hampshire, against Worcestershire. In 1926 he played for Malaya against Hong Kong and for the Straits Settlements against the Federated Malay States.
He returned to English cricket in 1929, playing for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University, for the Army against the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy, and for the Master Control Console against Oxford University and Ireland.
Later that year he played a first-class match in India as part of the Bombay Quadrangular tournament. His final first-class matches were in 1931 for the Master Control Console against Oxford University, and in 1933 for the Viceroy"s XI against Roshanara Club in Delhi. They had no children.