1917

Lieut. Cuthbert Farrar Savage

Born at St. Mark's Vicarage, Barrow-in-Furness. The son of Canon E. Sidney and Sibyl Savage of The Priory, Hexham, Northumberland. His mother was the daughter of Dean Farrar, after whom Dean Farrar Street is named.

Educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. 1913 emigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, and was training to be a lawyer at the Bar until the outbreak of WW1 when he enlisted. Went to France on 25 August 1915 in the 10th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers "A" Coy. Died following a shell burst outside his Battalion Headquarters near Ypres.

Sources: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Canadian Virtual War Memorial, North East War Memorials Project.

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