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“If you think, have a kindly thought, If you speak, speak generously, Of those who as heroes fought And died to keep you free”
Set up by the Black Country Society. Our aim is to highlight local men who died in the Great War and how they have been commemorated on war memorials. Its scope covers the whole of the present Dudley Municipal Borough and therefore includes the places which have come within its bounds since 1914.
There are over fifty memorials and the number of names exceeds three thousand. Research on the names has been extensive but inevitably errors and omissions occur. We would like to hear about them concentrated on life and work before 1914, involvement in military campaigns and where each man is buried or commemorated.
William Savage was the son of Mrs Selina Savage (later Kirton) of High Town, Cradley. He was working in South Wales in 1914 and volunteered for the South Wales Borderers. He joined the 4th (Service) Battalion who were sent to Gallipoli with ANZAC forces to reinforce the Allied army in August 1915. They landed successfully but fierce Turkish resistance prevented advance to the ridge of the peninsula. Sergeant William Savage was killed in action on the 21st August. He was 19 years of age and is commemorated on the Helles, Cradley and Halesowen Memorials. His brother, Joseph, was killed on the first day of Third Ypres.
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ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, High St, Halesowen, Dudley, West Midlands, England, B63 3BB
