Private Ernest Davenport

Army Number: 3067

Battalion: 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Herbert and Maria Davenport, of 5, Moor Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Prior to enlisting at Newark, Nottinghamshire, 10th November 1914, he was employed by Sanderson & Robinson Ltd., Sheepbridge Lane, Mansfield, as a moulder in the foundry. On 28th May 1916, aged 20, he died from gunshot wounds which he sustained on the 26/27th April 1916, whilst fighting during the Irish Rebellion in Dublin.

Buried: Mansfield (Nottingham Road) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Row B. Grave 1318.

Private Ernest Davenport is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
St. Aiden’s Church War Memorial (St. Mark’s Church), Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
The Old Meeting House War Memorials, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
St. Marks; Church War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham

His brother Private Albert Davenport, Leicestershire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.