Francis Leycester Festing

Francis Leycester Festing
Born(1877-07-25)25 July 1877
Died17 October 1948(1948-10-17) (aged 71)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
Years of service1895–1919
RankBrigadier General
Battles / warsMahdist War
Second Boer War
First World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Mentioned in Despatches (4)
RelationsMajor General Sir Francis Festing (father)
Field Marshal Sir Francis Festing (son)

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

Festing was the son of Major General Sir Francis Festing. He 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 in the British Army.[3]

References

  1. ^ "No. 29284". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 September 1915. pp. 8804–8805.
  2. ^ "No. 30411". The London Gazette. 30 November 1917. p. 12650.
  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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