| 词条 | Richard Gabriel Akinwande Savage |
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Major Richard Gabriel Akinwande Savage (1903 - 1993) was a medical doctor, soldier, and the first person of West African heritage to receive a British Army commission.[1] Earl life and familyHe was born in 1903 at 15 Buccleugh Place, in Edinburgh, Scotland, of mixed ancestry to the prominent Nigerian doctor Richard Akinwande Savage of Sierra Leone Creole descent, who married a Scotswoman, Maggie Bowie.[1][2] His sister, Agnes Yewande Savage, also played a pioneering role as the first West African woman to qualify as a medical doctor.[3] EducationSavage studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduated (MB, ChB)[1] in 1926, and received his commission as a 2nd Lieutenant on 23 September 1940, making him the first West African to be commissioned an officer in the British Army (Seth Anthony of Ghana, has been incorrectly referenced as the first West African to receive a commission in the British Army).[1] He served as a medical doctor in the Asian Theater of World War 2, specifically in Burma, where he tended to wounded soldiers from Britain's contingent. Among the soldiers that Savage treated in the Burma was Isaac Fadoyebo, a wounded Nigerian soldier in the Royal West African Frontier Force, who recounted the quality of care that Savage provided to him and other West African soldiers.[4] Later LifeHe, like his father, also married a Scottish woman. And retired to Scotland, having found Africa "vexing". References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|last1=Keazor|first1=Ed|title=Tracking Captain Savage: The Forgotten Pioneer of African Military History|url=http://nsibidiinstitute.org/tracking-captain-savage-the-forgotten-pioneer-of-african-military-history/|website=Nsibidi Institute|accessdate=5 March 2016}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Savage, Richard}}2. ^{{cite web|title=CAS Students to Lead Seminar On University’s African Alumni, Pt. IV: Agnes Yewande Savage|url=https://centreofafricanstudies.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/cas-students-to-lead-seminar-on-universitys-african-alumni-pt-iv-agnes-yewande-savage/|website=University of Edinburgh - Center for African Studies Postgraduate Students Blog|accessdate=23 December 2016}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Patton|first1=Adell|title=Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa|publisher=University Press of Florida, 1996|isbn=9780813014326|page=28|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=usGMT7FOhdAC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=agnes+yewande+savage&source=bl&ots=qR98kwpm_J&sig=RVn8dYNvNFLLZsMwdvWKAxq6NUk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiF9rjd2ajLAhVmgYMKHfSgAPsQ6AEIRTAJ#v=onepage&q=agnes%20yewande%20savage&f=false|accessdate=5 March 2016}} 4. ^{{cite book|last1=Phillips|first1=Barnaby|title=Another Man's War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten Army|publisher=Oneworld Publications, 2014|isbn=9781780745237|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h08QBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT160&lpg=PT160&dq=an+immensely+caring+man+%E2%80%A6+of+mixed+Scottish+and+Gold+Coast+ancestry+and+married+to+a+woman+from+one+of+Gold+Coast%E2%80%99s+leading+families&source=bl&ots=-1IoM3QNoe&sig=vNfBQL8yllA_hiMPImrsNqFhM3c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjC76-p46jLAhWqtoMKHTRSBlEQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=savage&f=false|accessdate=5 March 2016}} 17 : 1903 births|1993 deaths|British Army personnel of World War II|Nigerian people of World War II|Yoruba military personnel|Yoruba physicians|Alumni of the University of Edinburgh|Scottish people of Sierra Leonean descent|20th-century Nigerian medical doctors|Scottish people of Nigerian descent|Scottish people of Yoruba descent|Scottish military medical officers|Nigerian military doctors|People from Edinburgh|Royal Army Medical Corps officers|Savage family (Lagos)|Nigerian people of Scottish descent |
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