3067 Private Ernest Davenport.
The Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
2nd/8th Battalion.
Aged 20.
Son of Herbert and Maria Davenport, of 5, Moor Street, Mansfield.
The birth of Ernest Davenport was registered in Mansfield District, Nottinghamshire, in the quarter ended September 1897.
Ernest Davenport was a military casualty of the 1916 Easter Rising, which commenced in Dublin on Monday 24 April 1916.
Reinforcements were sent over from England on the night of 25 April, and landed at Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire] on the morning of 26 April. They marched towards Dublin City Centre. The 2nd/8th Battalion marched through Ballsbridge and headed towards Northumberland Road intending to cross over the Grand Canal and onto Lower Mount Street.
On Northumberland Road they were ambushed by the Volunteers who were part of the 3rd Dublin Brigade based at Bolands Mills. Very severe casualties were inflicted on the Sherwood Foresters at this location.
Ernest Davenport was taken to the nearby Royal City of Dublin Hospital, where he died 2 days later.
Death Certificate.
Private Ernest Davenport, aged 20, a bachelor, a Soldier, of 210 New Victoria Street, Mansfield, died at The Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Baggot Street, Dublin, on 28 May 1916.
The cause of death was Gunshot Wound of Cranium & Brain, certified.
His death was registered by a member of the hospital staff, on 30 May 1916.
Almost all of the army casualties were buried in
Grangegorman Military Cemetery
with a few being buried in
Deansgrange Cemetery
Only a very small number of the casualties were returned to, or claimed by, their families, and taken to England for burial.
His name is included on the
1916 Easter Rising Memorial Wall
in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
The Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
2nd/8th Battalion.
Aged 20.
Son of Herbert and Maria Davenport, of 5, Moor Street, Mansfield.
The birth of Ernest Davenport was registered in Mansfield District, Nottinghamshire, in the quarter ended September 1897.
Ernest Davenport was a military casualty of the 1916 Easter Rising, which commenced in Dublin on Monday 24 April 1916.
Reinforcements were sent over from England on the night of 25 April, and landed at Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire] on the morning of 26 April. They marched towards Dublin City Centre. The 2nd/8th Battalion marched through Ballsbridge and headed towards Northumberland Road intending to cross over the Grand Canal and onto Lower Mount Street.
On Northumberland Road they were ambushed by the Volunteers who were part of the 3rd Dublin Brigade based at Bolands Mills. Very severe casualties were inflicted on the Sherwood Foresters at this location.
Ernest Davenport was taken to the nearby Royal City of Dublin Hospital, where he died 2 days later.
Death Certificate.
Private Ernest Davenport, aged 20, a bachelor, a Soldier, of 210 New Victoria Street, Mansfield, died at The Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Baggot Street, Dublin, on 28 May 1916.
The cause of death was Gunshot Wound of Cranium & Brain, certified.
His death was registered by a member of the hospital staff, on 30 May 1916.
Almost all of the army casualties were buried in
Grangegorman Military Cemetery
with a few being buried in
Deansgrange Cemetery
Only a very small number of the casualties were returned to, or claimed by, their families, and taken to England for burial.
His name is included on the
1916 Easter Rising Memorial Wall
in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
3067 Private Ernest Davenport.
The Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
2nd/8th Battalion.
Aged 20.
Son of Herbert and Maria Davenport, of 5, Moor Street, Mansfield.
The birth of Ernest Davenport was registered in Mansfield District, Nottinghamshire, in the quarter ended September 1897.
Ernest Davenport was a military casualty of the 1916 Easter Rising, which commenced in Dublin on Monday 24 April 1916.
Reinforcements were sent over from England on the night of 25 April, and landed at Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire] on the morning of 26 April. They marched towards Dublin City Centre. The 2nd/8th Battalion marched through Ballsbridge and headed towards Northumberland Road intending to cross over the Grand Canal and onto Lower Mount Street.
On Northumberland Road they were ambushed by the Volunteers who were part of the 3rd Dublin Brigade based at Bolands Mills. Very severe casualties were inflicted on the Sherwood Foresters at this location.
Ernest Davenport was taken to the nearby Royal City of Dublin Hospital, where he died 2 days later.
Death Certificate.
Private Ernest Davenport, aged 20, a bachelor, a Soldier, of 210 New Victoria Street, Mansfield, died at The Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Baggot Street, Dublin, on 28 May 1916.
The cause of death was Gunshot Wound of Cranium & Brain, certified.
His death was registered by a member of the hospital staff, on 30 May 1916.
Almost all of the army casualties were buried in
Grangegorman Military Cemetery
with a few being buried in
Deansgrange Cemetery
Only a very small number of the casualties were returned to, or claimed by, their families, and taken to England for burial.
His name is included on the
1916 Easter Rising Memorial Wall
in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
The Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
2nd/8th Battalion.
Aged 20.
Son of Herbert and Maria Davenport, of 5, Moor Street, Mansfield.
The birth of Ernest Davenport was registered in Mansfield District, Nottinghamshire, in the quarter ended September 1897.
Ernest Davenport was a military casualty of the 1916 Easter Rising, which commenced in Dublin on Monday 24 April 1916.
Reinforcements were sent over from England on the night of 25 April, and landed at Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire] on the morning of 26 April. They marched towards Dublin City Centre. The 2nd/8th Battalion marched through Ballsbridge and headed towards Northumberland Road intending to cross over the Grand Canal and onto Lower Mount Street.
On Northumberland Road they were ambushed by the Volunteers who were part of the 3rd Dublin Brigade based at Bolands Mills. Very severe casualties were inflicted on the Sherwood Foresters at this location.
Ernest Davenport was taken to the nearby Royal City of Dublin Hospital, where he died 2 days later.
Death Certificate.
Private Ernest Davenport, aged 20, a bachelor, a Soldier, of 210 New Victoria Street, Mansfield, died at The Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Baggot Street, Dublin, on 28 May 1916.
The cause of death was Gunshot Wound of Cranium & Brain, certified.
His death was registered by a member of the hospital staff, on 30 May 1916.
Almost all of the army casualties were buried in
Grangegorman Military Cemetery
with a few being buried in
Deansgrange Cemetery
Only a very small number of the casualties were returned to, or claimed by, their families, and taken to England for burial.
His name is included on the
1916 Easter Rising Memorial Wall
in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
Inscription
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
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