William James Davenport
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Knighton
24th February 1915
Private - 355055
25th (Montgomery & Welsh Horse Yeomanry) Battalion Territorial Force
Formed 4th March 1917, at Helmia, Egypt from the dismounted Montgomery & Welsh Horse Yeomanry as part of the 231st Brigade of the 74th Division.
Private - 1845, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, 1/1st Battalion
29, Market Street, Knighton
Bricklayer - working for Henry Elsmore (house decorator) of West Street.
8th December 1917, Egypt
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
British War Medal Victory Medal
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William Davenport - 27th October 1865 - 5th February 1947
Helen (nee Lloyd) - 2nd December 1865 - 1939
Mary Elizabeth - 7th March 1889
Thomas George - 1891
Rachel Ellen - 1894
Zea - 1896
Godfrey John - 17 May 1899 - 1st June 1991 - Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(Godfrey was a chocolate maker, he married Gladys V Smith in Birmingham in 1926. They emigrated to Canada on 24th March 1929 on the ship Duchess of Bedford. Their grave can be seen here)
Eva - 1901
Frank - 6 Aug 1903 - May 1990 (chocolate maker)
Ivy Bertha - 6 May 1908
Violet Dylis Ruth - 1911
The Brecon Radnor Express - 10th January 1918
At the close of the evening service of Victoria Road Baptist Church, on the 30th ult., a vote of sympathy was passed with the relatives of the late Trooper W. Davenport, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry. We understand that the relatives received news, on Christmas Day, to the effect that Trooper Davenport had fallen in action in Palestine. The family, who have now removed from Knighton, formerly attended Victoria Road Church, and the fallen soldier was a scholar in the Sunday school.
This wasn't the only bad news to affect the family, previously in 1915 another son, Thomas George was wounded.
The Brecon Radnor Express - 19th August 1915
Knighton Man Wounded. OFFICIAL INTIMATION.
Official intimation has been received by Mr and Mrs W Davenport, Market street, Knighton, that their son- T. G. Davenport, of the 18th Hussars (Queen Mary's) British Expeditionary Forces, has been wounded while at the Front and that he is now in hospital "somewhere in France." At the Victoria Road Baptist Church on Sunday, Rev. T. Williams, B.A., of Aberystwyth, who occupied the pulpit, made special reference to Davenport in his intercessory prayers.