William Capper

British Army officer (1856–1934)

William Capper
Born(1856-02-06)6 February 1856
Bath, Somerset, England
Died15 January 1934(1934-01-15) (aged 77)
Bath, Somerset, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1876–1913
RankColonel
Commands heldRoyal Military College, Sandhurst
Battles/warsWorld War I
AwardsCommander of the Royal Victorian Order

Colonel William Baume Capper CVO (6 February 1856 – 15 January 1934) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst.

Military career

Capper was born on 6 February 1856 at Newbridge Hill, Bath, Somerset,[1] his father William Copeland Capper having been in the Bengal Civil Service. Educated at Haileybury,[2] Capper was commissioned into the 85th Regiment of Foot in 1876[3] and subsequently played cricket for Shropshire[4] in 1882-83 and for Staffordshire.[1] He became adjutant of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1886.[5] He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War and in the Mahdist War in Sudan from 1884 to 1885.[6] He was Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst from 1907 to 1911[7] and then served in World War I, following which he was made a CVO in 1919.[6]

Family

In 1888 he married Helen Margaret Parry; they had two daughters.[6] He died aged 77 in January 1934 at Newbridge Hill, Bath.[1]

He had three brothers all who served in the Army, one was Major-General Sir Thompson Capper KCMG, CB, DSO who was killed in World War I,[8] and another was Major-General Sir John Edward Capper.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c Percival, Tony (1999). Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998. A.C.S. Publications, Nottingham. pp. 9, 42. ISBN 1-902171-17-9.Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
  2. ^ Egypt
  3. ^ "No. 24292". The London Gazette. 11 February 1876. p. 589.
  4. ^ Cricket Archive
  5. ^ "No. 25615". The London Gazette. 10 August 1886. p. 3856.
  6. ^ a b c Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (page 82)
  7. ^ "Army Commands" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  8. ^ Godden Green War Memorial
  9. ^ Sir John Edward Capper, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, retrieved 11 August 2007 (subscription needed)
Military offices
Preceded by Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst
1907−1911 		Succeeded by