TitleLieutenant Allan Arthur Orme DavenportBiography
Prep in 1902, Melbourne Grammar School (1903) and Geelong Grammar School (1908). At Geelong Grammar he was Captain of School and twice stroke in Head of the River crew.
Birth / Death- Died 24/03/1918First Year at Wesley1902
Date Enlisted3rd May 1915Enlisted UnitEast Lancashire RegimentService DetailServed at Cape Helles, Egypt and Sinai. MC and MID in France 1917. Killed in the March 1918 German advance on the Somme. The 4th Battalion was overwhelmed with only one officer and about twenty men surviving. Age at Death24Final UnitEast Lancaster Regiment 1st/2nd Battalion attd 4th BattalionCemetery / MemorialRosieres British CemeteryCemetery / Memorial Detail14RankLieutenant
Davenport, Allan Arthur Orme OW(1902). Archives and Art Collections, accessed 19/03/2026, https://wesleycollege.recollect.net.au/nodes/view/1259