Phillip Henry Savage

A Flight Sergeant with the Royal Air Force, Phillip died on 25th of February 1944 aged 24. 

Phillip was born at the Isle of Wight in 1920, a son of Sidney Phillip and Evelyn Beatrice Savage. Phillip’s father died in 1926 and, by 1939, his mother was living at 25 West Road, Caister-on-Sea. Phillip’s uncle, Herbert James Savage, lived at White House Farm, Victoria Road, Oulton Broad.

Phillip enlisted in the Royal Artillery, service number 877898, in 1938 and served with 73 Anti-Aircraft Regiment. On 8 July 1941 he transferred to the Royal Air Force. By February 1944 he was a Navigator serving with 100 Squadron based at Waltham, Lincolnshire. 

On 25 February Phillip was a member of the crew of a Lancaster III bomber, number ED815 HW-P, on a raid to Schweinfurt. Phillip’s aircraft crashed. Two of the crew survived and were captured. 

WITH THANKS TO: Malcolm Barrass