Virtual War Memorial | Percival James ("Babe" or "The Major") SAVAGE

Percival James ("Babe" or "The Major") SAVAGE DSO, MiDx3 Update Details

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SAVAGE, Percival James

Service Number:	Officer
Enlisted:	26 August 1914
Last Rank:	Major
Last Unit:	1st Australian Divisional Engineers
Born:	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia , 22 October 1894
Home Town:	Ipswich, Queensland
Schooling:	Brassall State School & Ipswich Grammar School
Occupation:	Coach-builder (Qld. Rail)
Died:	Natural Causes, Brisbane, Queensland, 26 July 1976, aged 81 years
Cemetery:	Privately Cremated Percys ashes were scattered under a Bottle tree on the street where he'd lived. He brought the sapling Bottle tree back from a family property near Yuleba Qld a couple of years before.
Memorials:	Ipswich Soldier's Memorial Hall Great War

World War 1 Service

26 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1
22 Sep 1914:	Involvement AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer, 3rd Field Company Engineers, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
22 Sep 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer, 3rd Field Company Engineers, HMAT Geelong, Melbourne
21 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Major, 1st Australian Divisional Engineers
19 Aug 1916:	Honoured Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Awarded Distinguished Service Order after being mention in Sir Douglas Haigs' dispatch of 13/11/16 "for distinguished & gallant services & devotion to duty in the field".
8 Oct 1918:	Embarked Embarked at Taranto for Australia

World War 2 Service

24 Apr 1942:	Enlisted

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