Personal Details Born: 1892 Family: The only son of Thomas and Elizabeth Davenport of South Street, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. He had four sisters, Genia, Elizabeth, Gertrude and Gladys. Reginald married Dorothy Annie Jaines in March 1918 whilst on leave. Civilian Occupation: On … 
St Alkmund’s Church is at the top of Bargate, Whitchurch, next to the site of the original Whitchurch Grammar School. At the west end of the Church is a triptych form war memorial with a central panel of …
The 1914 Star (also known as ‘Pip’) was authorised under Special Army Order no. 350 in November 1917 and by an Admiralty Fleet Order in 1918, for award to officers and men of the British and Indian Expeditionary Forces who …
I first started visiting the Battlefields, Cemeteries and Memorials of the Western Front some fifteen years ago. Three years ago I decided to research the names on the War Memorial in Station Road, that’s all they are names, carved …
Report in the Shrewsbury News & Wellington Journal August 1915 on the death of Horace Birch Davenport. “Whitchurch has to de-plore the loss a another one of its gallant sons, Horace Birch Davenport 1st Shropshire Light Infantry who fell somewhere …
Horace Birch Davenport was born in Belton Road, Whitchurch in 1881, the third son of George and Mary Davenport of Wrexham Road, Whitchurch. Husband of Mabel (nee Jones) Davenport, of Newtown, Whitchurch, father of George Bernard. Regiment : 1st Battalion …
12th September 1914 George Albert Chubb