Savage, Percy

At the time of the 1891 census Percy, aged 3, was living with his parents and five older siblings at 3 Market Street, Warwick. The eldest, Amy (14) was working as a general servant. Lizzie (12), William (9), Frances (7) and Mary (5) were at school. Their father was a bricklayer’s labourer.

By 1901 there were another three children: Leonard, Hilda and Arthur and the two eldest girls had left home. Both William Snr and William Jnr were working as bricklayer’s labourers and Frances was working as a cigar maker.

Percy appears in the 1911 census in the return for the Alverstoke barracks, Gosport, Hampshire. He is recorded as single, a Sapper in the 42nd Company of the Royal Engineers and a former bricklayer.

No record of his marriage to Eva Paget has been found.

Warwick Advertiser 1919:

‘Corporal PERCY SAVAGE,  (Royal Enginners) died on the 26^th of February 1919, aged 31 years of bronchial pneumonia at the 8^th Canadian Hospital, Dunkirk, France.  Deeply mourned by  Mother, Brothers and Sisters.’

‘SAVAGE – On February 26th of bronchial pneumonia, at the 8th Canadian Hospital, Dunkirk, France.  Cpl P Savage, Royal Engineers dearly beloved husband of Eva Savage, 5 St Pauls Terrace, aged 31 years.  “Rest in Peace”‘