In Memory Of
SAVAGE, WILLIAM HOWARD
Service Details
Age:
31
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Unit:
11th Bn.
Regiment:
Royal Fusiliers
Former Regiment:
formerly 181 1st and 2nd Mounted Rifles
Date of Death:
1916-07-01
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
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
II. D. I.
Cemetery:
DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ
Localitly:
Somme
Country:
France
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
