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| Rifleman John Savage |
Service No: 2365
Died: 16/08/1917
Age: 24
Remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial
Remembered on family memorial in Bangor Cemetery
John Savage was born in Holborn Street, Bangor on 7 November 1893. He was the son of James Hamilton Savage, a carpenter, and his wife Mary (nee Graham) and was the third of their four children.
His father James became a succesful building contractor and the family moved to Mount Herald, on the Ballyholme Road. He eventually became an elected Councillor and JP.
On the outbreak of war John enlisted in Belfast with the 13th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles. He was working in a dressing station when it took a direct hit from a shell and most of the medical staff and patients were killed.
The loss made a great impact on the family and they placed a memorial notice iin the paper every year for over 40 years.
When his father James died in November 1954, his will recorded a bequest to Bangor Hospital for "the balance, if any be due, of £100 promised by me to name a bed in memory of my son, John Graham Savage."
John’s older brother Alexander was a Sergeant in the Royal Irish Rifles.
Roll of Honour—In Memoriam
SAVAGE – In loving remembrance of John Graham Savage, killed in action, August, 1917. — Mount Herald, Bangor.
Belfast Newsletter, 17 August 1954.
