Francis Leycester Festing
British Army general
About Francis Leycester Festing
Lived 1877 – 1948 (aged 71).
Brigadier-General Francis Leycester Festing, (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, just over two years later he received a temporary promotion to brigadier general on 10 October 1917 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.
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Who was Francis Leycester Festing?
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Francis Leycester Festing was born on 25 July 1877.
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Francis Leycester Festing died on 17 October 1948.
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