Rifleman 5/391 Thomas Docker DAVENPORT

Rifleman 5/391 Thomas Docker Davenport{gallery}Rfn T D Davenport{/gallery}1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade
Killed in action, France and Flanders, 10th November 1914, aged 34.

• Commemorated: Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium. Panel 10
  
• Awarded Queen’s South Africa Medal with Clasps, [1914 Star – not on card], British War and Victory Medals
  
• Son of the Thomas and Eliza Davenport of Lutterworth Road, Pailton
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Pailton
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Rifleman Davenport
• NNWFHS Pailton War Memorial Page
• Ploegsteert Memorial
• Rifle Brigade

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born Dec Qtr 1880 at Ullesthorpe, Leics
• Lived at Pailton [1911]
• Employed as a gardener’s assistant [1911]
  
• Enlisted at Coventry on declaration of war
• Formerly Trooper 1702 of 22 (Cheshire) Company, 2 Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry and served in Boer War. He was awarded the Cape Colony and Orange Free State Clasps. Click here for a transcript of his S Africa records