2651 Pte. Abaham Savage died in the British Section of the Lahore Indian Stationary Hospital of erysipelas and is buried in MAZARGUES WAR CEMETERY (erysipelas is an acute bacterial infection of the skin). At the time the 46th Division were in Marseilles due to an aborted move to Gallipoli and they remained there until the end of January.

Abraham Savage was a pottery labourer from Station Road on Whittington Moor and enlisted in October 1914 aged 21. He arrived in France with the 46th Division in February 1915.

Interestingly, Abraham’s family appears to have received a pension from the French Ministry of War.