Vivian Davenport

Garrison Sergeant Major Vivian Hugh Stuart Davenport MBE MC DCM & Bar was a British Army soldier of the First World War. He was one of a very small number of soldiers to be twice awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry.

Early life
Davenport was educated at Bloxham School, Oxfordshire.

Medals
He served with the 2nd Battalion, The Border Regiment. He was first awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal on 1 April 1915, while serving as company sergeant major. His citation read:

""For conspicuous gallantry on numerous occasions, especially on 28th October 1914, when he went alone under heavy fire and destroyed one of the enemy’s machine guns.""

He was re-awarded the DCM several months later, on 13 August 1915:

""For gallant conduct and devotion to duty on the 16th May 1915, at Festubert, when, assisted by another man, he carried back an officer who was wounded, from half way between the British and German lines, under a very heavy and destructive fire.""

He was also awarded the Military Cross during the war. Davenport was invested as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1923 New Year Honours.