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L/Cpl. Thomas Walter Davenport
British Army 10th Btn, B Coy. Cheshire Regiment
from:124 London Road, Northwich, Cheshire
(d.19th Jul 1916)
Thomas Davenport, born 1894 in Northwich, Cheshire, died from wounds at Etaples Military Hospital on the 19th of July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Etaples. He had enlisted at Northwich, on the 3rd of September 1914 and trained at Chester and Aldershot.
He fought at the Battle of the Somme where he was severely wounded near La Boiselle in the shoulder and carried back by his pals to safety. He was transported to Etaples Military Hospital where he died from his wounds a few days later. The Matron of the hospital and his immediate officer wrote to his parents.
On 20th of June 2014 his remaining photographs, documents, War Office correspondence (from his officer and matron to his parents), Northwich Guardian obituary, personal effects etc. were part of an exhibition at the Peoples' History Museum Manchester, A Land Fit for Heroes: War & the Working Class 1914-1918 which was opened by Tristram Hunt MP and lasted for seven months.
He is remembered on a monument erected in his home town of Northwich, Cheshire, erected in 1925.
