John Davenport Sheffield (1879 – 13 March 1915) was an English amateur footballer who played in the Football League for Burton United and Leicester Fosse as an outside right.
[1] Sheffield apprenticed as an architect and surveyor and as of 1911 was assisting his family in the running of the Railway Hotel, Coalville.
He later rejoined the regiment soon after the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.
[5] On 13 March 1915, while serving with the 2nd Battalion of the regiment, Sheffield was shot in the head and killed by a sniper on the final day of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
[2] This biographical article related to association football in England, about a forward born in the 1870s, is a stub.