David DAVENPORT

Regimental number25/377
OccupationFarmer
Next of kinWife, Mrs Gertrude Jane Davenport, Ashhurst
Rank on embarkationLance Corporal
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 3rd Battalion, D Company
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on 5 February 1916
Final rankLance Corporal
Final unit3rd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
FateDied of wounds 6 October 1917
Age at death from cemetery records34
Place of burialYpres Reservoir Cemetery (Plot I, Row H, Grave No 11), nr Ieper, Belgium
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: John Henry and Agnes Davenport, Masterton, Wairarapa; Wife: Gertrude Jane Davenport, 3 Donnington Street, Palmerston North
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNominal Roll Vol. 2: Roll 24, p. 14

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