Francis Leycester Festing
Francis Leycester Festing was a senior commander in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. He received a temporary promotion to brig-gen on 10 October 1917 and took up post as the Deputy Adjutant-General at the HQ of the RFC in France.
He was the son of Major-General Sir Francis Festing.
Festing married Charlotte Katharine Grindall Festing and, in 1902, they had one child Francis Wogan Festing who rose to the rank of field marshal.
