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Francis Leycester Festing

Francis Leycester Festing

British Army general (1877–1948)

Brigadier-General Francis Leycester Festing CB CMG (25 July 1877 - 17 October 1948) was a senior officer in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. Promoted to major on 1 September 1915,[1] just over two years later he received a temporary promotion to brig-gen on 10 October 1917[2] and took up post as the Deputy Adjutant-General at the HQ of the RFC in France.

He was the son of Major-General Sir Francis Festing.

Festing married Charlotte Katharine Grindall Festing (his second cousin) and, in 1902, they had one child Francis Wogan Festing who rose to the rank of field marshal.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "No. 29284". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 September 1915. pp. 8804–8805.
  2. [2]
    "No. 30411". The London Gazette. 30 November 1917. p. 12650.
  3. [3]
    "Festing, Sir Francis Wogan". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31103. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)


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