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Robert Davenport (Royal Navy officer)

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Allegiance
  
Name
  
Robert Davenport

Service/branch
  
Role
  
Royal Navy officer

Rank
  
Died
  
June 15, 1965


Years of service
  
1896 - 19381939 - 1946

Commands held
  
HMS DespatchHMS Queen ElizabethCoast of Scotland

Battles/wars
  
Second Boer WarWorld War IWorld War II

Vice Admiral Robert Clutterbuck Davenport CB (13 April 1882 – 15 June 1965) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland.

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Educated on HMS Britannia, Davenport joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1896. He was confirmed as a sub-lieutenant on 15 April 1901, served in the Second Boer War and World War I. He became Commanding Officer of the cruiser HMS Despatch in 1924 and the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth in 1930 and went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland in 1935. He retired in 1938 but was recalled to serve in World War II as Commodore of Convoys from 1939 and then on the Selection Board for Temporary Commissions in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve from 1941 until his final retirement in 1946.

Family

In 1917 he married Gwladwys Mabel Halahan (née Gwatkin-Williams).

References

Robert Davenport (Royal Navy officer) Wikipedia


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