ROLL OF HONOUR

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 9, 6 October 1919, Page 1

ROLL OF HONOUR

IN .3IEMORIAM;. ■ DAVENI'OIIT.—In loving memory uf Corporal David Davenport,\ N.X.R.8,, 3rd Battalion, who died of wouinls, October G, 1917; aged 31' yenrs. : Had ivo only been there' at tho hour ,'ot ' death, . To have caught the last sigh of a parting breath, ' ' One last fond whisper we wight have heard, ■••••■ And breathed in his ear just a parting • word. ; Oh! Who can'tell the pain w« hear? And how our hearth tliey aclie? ■'When lads 111 khaki return, And our dear onea return 110 more.,. But we will never forget thorn—' • . .. We loved tuem then; we love,them l now. When their name js spoken it i 8 hallowed, For all vvho knew them loved them, And those who loved, them bcßt miss them , tile most.; He needed no Recruiting, lie answered his country's, call. —Inserted by his sorroiving family," G., D., HI, A. Davenport.