| Surname: | Savy |
| Forename(s): | Felix Victor |
| Rank: | Sergeant |
| Service number: | 1107411 |
| Regiment: | 238 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
| Date of death: | 20 October 1941 Aged 19 |
| Place of death: | Egypt |
| Buried
Commemorated |
Unknown Alamein Memorial Column 243. |
Background
Felix was born on 23 October 1921 at the Grange, Kingussie to Joseph Henri Napoléon Félix Savy, Physician and Surgeon, and Ethel Savy m.s. Patterson. His parents had married at Farnham, Surrey on 21 July 1916.
Felix attended the Fort Augustus Abbey School. The Old Boys Association Newsletter of April 2012 refers to a project for their 70th Anniversary to re-site the 1939-1945 War Memorial, to its original place on the drive, and it was reported that this had been achieved. The names of those pupils who lost their lives included “Felix Savy RAF from Kingussie” and all their names are on a wooden plaque sited in the lodge chapel.
Felix’s father was born in the Seychelles moving to St Joseph’s College in Dumfries before studying medicine at Glasgow University. The study and care of tuberculosis became his life’s work. During World War One he was a Captain in the RAMC. When his own health became poor he came to Kingussie and bought the Grampian Sanatorium. In addition to work in the Sanatorium he worked as a GP.
A press announcement on, 20 February 1942, of Felix’s death records his parents living at Sonnhalde, Kingussie. Both of Felix’s parent’s are buried in Kingussie Cemetery.
Felix had a sister and a brother who, it is believed, went on to become a medical doctor.
War Record
Felix was part of a 12 Hurricane fighter escort from 238 Squadron at Sidi Omer, Egypt who were escorting five Blenheim bombers attacking an enemy aerodrome. It was reported that his plane (Hurricane IIa Z2452) was last seen in a steep dive. He failed to return and was reported missing on 20 October 1941. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial to the Missing.
Operations Record Book at the National Archive ref AIR 27/1453.
Also remembered on , Kingussie War Memorial and Fort Augustus Abbey School Memorial.
