Service Details
Name:
 SAVAGE
Given Name:
 WILLIAM HOWARD
Initials:
 W H
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Fusiliers
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Unit:
 11th Bn.
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Former Regiment:
 formerly 181 1st and 2nd Mounted Rifles
Date of Death:
 1916-07-01
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Age:
 31
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in attack of Mametz Spur. Capture of Pommiers Redoubt, Beetle Alley and White Trench after hand-to-hand fighting. 227 casualties
Additional
Information:
Son of William Frederick and Edith Maria Savage, of 70, Park Drive, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Born Woodford, Essex, England. His brother Frederick Quinton Savage 20 September 1917 also died in service
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ
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Grave Reference:
 II. D. I.

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