Digitized Service Record
Source: Per post by David Archer with photographs at the 18th Battalion Facebook Group.
Family Search: When Private George James Thomas Savage was born on 19 February 1893, in Clerkenwell, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Circume Savage, was 26 and his mother, Minnie Jane Worssam, was 24. He married Mabel Blanche Parkhouse on 8 October 1919, in York, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1922 and Weston, Etobicoke Township, York, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as teamster. He died on 13 October 1965, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 72, and was buried in Sanctuary Park Cemetery, Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
SAVAGE, GEORGE 409304.
This man enlisted with the 37th Battalion (97th Regiment, Algonquin Rifles) at Niagara Camp, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, on 18 August 1915. This is a Northern Ontario unit, and Savage may have lived near North Bay at the time of his enlistment. Giving his name as George (full name George James Thomas) Savage, he was a teamster with no prior military experience.
Arriving in England aboard the SS Lapland on 15 December 1915, he was transferred to the 12th Reserve Battalion at Shorncliffe.
He was not to be with that until long, as he was transferred for active combat duty with the 18th Battalion on 7 May 1916 and arrived 2 June 1916 “in the field” to be taken on strength and assigned to “C” Company, 18th Battalion.
He was wounded 8 June with a GSW to the scalp and was sent to England for treatment. He returned from England for continued service with the 18th on 12 June 1917 and was wounded again with a GSW to the right hand on 15 August 1917.
His wounds required treatment on the Continent, and he was returned to the 18th Battalion on 23 November 1917.
He was granted a 14-day leave to England on 14 January 1918.
Returning to his Battalion, he served until wounded a third time with a GSW to the left shoulder, right buttock, left back, buttock and thigh on 30 May 1918 and was sent to England for treatment on 9 June 1918,
He was treated in England and returned to Canada on 7 December 1918 being demobilized at Toronto, Ontario on 24 January 1919. He indicated his address was at Box 1863, North Bay, Ontario.
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