page_title: Percival Savage
section_title: Career as a farmer and agricultural administrator
hierarchical_section_title: Percival Savage / Career as a farmer and agricultural administrator
caption_attribution_description: English: Major Percival Savage and his wife Marjorie Savage ANZAC day 1974 Brisbane Australia
context_page_description: Major Percival James Savage, DSO, MBE was an Australian soldier, farmer and agricultural administrator. He was a World War I veteran, fighting as an ANZAC in Gallipoli, the Somme, Pozières, Passchendaele and Amiens. He rose rapidly through the ranks, becoming a Major at the age of 21. He was mentioned in dispatches three times. He was awarded a DSO on 14 December 1916 by King George V.
  After the war, he started a farm at Brookfield near Brisbane. He was chairman of the board of the Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing in Queensland for 30 years. In 1964 Savage presided over the establishment of the Golden Circle cannery. In 1969 he was awarded an MBE, for his services to the fruit and vegetable industry of Queensland.
context_section_description: Upon his return from military service, he used his entire earnings from the war (£1000) to buy a farm at Brookfield, near Brisbane. There was no road to the property, so he cut one out of the bush (this road is now known by his name, Savages Road). He lived there for 54 years, growing custard apples, papaws and bananas. He named the property 'Purple Patch', after the patch he wore in his army company (the 3rd AIF Engineers).
  
  As a farmer, he became involved in the Committee of Direction (COD) of Fruit Marketing in Queensland. He was elected chairman in 1937, serving until 1967 as chairman, then until 1973 as vice-Chairman, when he retired.
  In 1947, Savage (together with Bernard Flewell-Smith, the General Manager of the COD) oversaw the establishment of a pineapple cannery at Northgate, Brisbane. In 1964 they established the cannery as a separate business (now known as Golden Circle). It was split off from the COD by an amendment to the Fruit Marketing Organisation Acts.
  In 1969 he was awarded an MBE, for his services to the fruit and vegetable industry of Queensland.
caption: Major Percival Savage, with Marjorie Savage, ANZAC Day 1974
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