Lieutenant Colonel Francis Savage Nesbitt Savage-Armstrong

Regiment: 1st South Staffordshire Regiment
Date published: 01/06/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 23/04/1917
Age at death: 36
Cemetery: Point Du Jour Military Cemetery, Athies, Pas de Calais, France
Plot: II. E. 12.
Information: Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Savage Nesbitt Savage-Armstrong D.S.O., 1st South Staffordshire Regiment, was the elder son of the late George Francis Savage-Armstrong, M.A., Dublin University, D.Litt., and of Mrs. Savage-Armstrong, Strangford House, Strangford, Co. Down. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, was gazetted to and served with the 1st South Staffordshire Regiment and 4th Mounted Infantry Company in the South African War, 1900-1903, and was awarded the Queen's Medal with three clasps. He proceeded to France on Nov. 1st, 1914, served with the 1st South Staffordshire Regiment as Brigade Machine-Gun officer in the battles of Neuve Chapelle, Fromelles, and Festubert, where he was severely wounded in the right hand. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in July, 1915, and obtained his majority in September of the same year, and in May, 1916, commanded 2/7 Essex Regiment with rank of temp. Lieutenant-Colonel till October, 1916, when he again proceeded to France. He was put in command of the 13th Battalion Rifle Brigade till the return of Col. Pinney from sick leave, when he was transferred to the command of the 11th Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and was killed on the 23rd April, 1917. He was four times mentioned in despatches.