Second Lieutenant Edmund Sharington Davenport

Regiment: Royal Flying Corps
Panel reference: Unknown
Date published: 22/03/1918
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 03/01/1918
Age at death: 22
Cemetery: Arras Flying Services Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Information: Second Lieut. Edmund Sharington Davenport, R.F.C., only son of the late Capt. E. H. Davenport, R.N., and Mrs. Davenport, Park View, Cork, and grandson of the late Rev. E. S. Davenport, of “Davenport”, Bridgeworth, Salop, and nephew of Admiral J. Nicholas and of Sir Alexander Nesbit, M.D., Hon. Physician to the late Queen Victoria, and Inspector of General Hospitals and Fleet, R.N. Second Lieut. Davenport, who was 22 years old, joined the R.S.C. as cadet in April, 1917, and obtained his commission in three months, receiving his full pilot's wings in October. He went to the Western front in November, and was killed on Jan 3rd while flying over the German lines on patrol duty.