title: Francis Leycester Festing
text: # Francis Leycester Festing
  
  Brigadier-General Francis Leycester Festing CB CMG (25 July 1877 - 17 October 1948) was a senior officer in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. Promoted to major on 1 September 1915, just over two years later 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 (his second cousin) and, in 1902, they had one child Francis Wogan Festing who rose to the rank of field marshal.
  
  