John Milnes Favell became a Mining Engineer and like his father, was a member of the Volunteer / Territorial forces. By 1910 he was working in Malaysia and at the age of 32 was married in Singapore to Florence Danvers McCullagh, the daughter of Dr McCullagh of Bishop Auckland, Durham.
After the outbreak of the Great War, John returned to Britain and in 1915 became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry, and was later attached to the Royal Engineers and served in France. At the end of the war, he received three campaign medals. The 1915 Star, War medal, and Victory medal.
In 1919 he left England on the P&O ship ‘Nagoya’ headed for Penang to be reunited with his wife and return to work as a Rubber Planter in Malaysia. John was now 41.
It wasn’t until March 1927 that John and his wife Florence returned to England for a visit, travelling via Aden to Plymouth, bringing with them their 5 year old son Timothy and giving his father’s Weybridge address as their destination. John’s occupation was given as a Civil Servant of the Federated Malay States.
After returning to Malaysia they finally returned to England in 1932, initially living in Oxford before settling in a property named ‘byways’ in Milton Lilbourne, near Pewsey in Wiltshire. By 1959 when he took a trip to Madeira he described himself on the passenger list as retired
John died at Waverley Abbey House, Farnham, Surrey, on the 18th June 1968.