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William Capper

Colonel William Baume Capper CVO was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst.

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Colonel

William Capper

CVO
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
Branch
 British Army
Service years
1876–1913
Rank
Colonel
CommandsRoyal Military College, Sandhurst
Conflicts
World 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 18763 and subsequently played cricket for Shropshire4 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 attended the Staff College, Camberley, from 1893 to 1894.7

He was director of military education in India in December 1902.8 He was commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst from January 19079 to 191110 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,11 and another was Major-General Sir John Edward Capper.12

References

References

  1. 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". Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  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. Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (page 82)
  7. Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List. J. Murray. 1899. p. 118.
  8. "No. 27553". The London Gazette. 19 May 1903. p. 3152.
  9. "No. 27991". The London Gazette. 1 February 1907. p. 743.
  10. "Army Commands" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  11. Godden Green War Memorial
  12. Sir John Edward Capper, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, retrieved 11 August 2007 (subscription needed)