William Capper

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British Army officer (1856–1934)

title: "William Capper" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1856-births", "1934-deaths", "british-army-colonels", "military-personnel-from-bath,-somerset", "commanders-of-the-royal-victorian-order", "people-educated-at-haileybury-and-imperial-service-college", "58th-regiment-of-foot-officers", "commandants-of-sandhurst", "king's-shropshire-light-infantry-officers", "british-army-personnel-of-the-anglo-egyptian-war", "british-army-personnel-of-the-mahdist-war", "british-army-personnel-of-the-second-anglo-burmese-war", "british-army-personnel-of-world-war-i", "graduates-of-the-staff-college,-camberley"] description: "British Army officer (1856–1934)" topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Capper" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary British Army officer (1856–1934) ::

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honorific_prefixColonel
nameWilliam Capper
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birth_date
death_date
birth_placeBath, Somerset, England
death_placeBath, Somerset, England
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allegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
branch[[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg
serviceyears1876–1913
rankColonel
commandsRoyal Military College, Sandhurst
battlesWorld War I
awardsCommander of the Royal Victorian Order
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Military career

Capper was born on 6 February 1856 at Newbridge Hill, Bath, Somerset, his father William Copeland Capper having been in the Bengal Civil Service. Educated at Haileybury, Capper was commissioned into the 85th Regiment of Foot in 1876 and subsequently played cricket for Shropshire in 1882-83 and for Staffordshire.

He became adjutant of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1886. 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.

He attended the Staff College, Camberley, from 1893 to 1894.

He was director of military education in India in December 1902. He was commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst from January 1907 to 1911 and then served in World War I, following which he was made a CVO in 1919.

Family

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

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, and another was Major-General Sir John Edward Capper.

References

References

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  2. "Egypt".
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  4. [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/144/144481/144481.html Cricket Archive]
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  6. [http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/arthur-charles-fox-davies/armorial-families--a-directory-of-gentlemen-of-coat-armour-volume-1-dxo/page-82-armorial-families--a-directory-of-gentlemen-of-coat-armour-volume-1-dxo.shtml ''Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour'' by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (page 82)]
  7. (1899). "Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List". J. Murray.
  8. {{London Gazette. (19 May 1903)
  9. {{London Gazette. (1 February 1907)
  10. "Army Commands".
  11. [http://www.kentfallen.com/PDF%20REPORTS/GODDEN%20GREEN.pdf Godden Green War Memorial]
  12. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/41054 Sir John Edward Capper], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', retrieved 11 August 2007 (subscription needed)

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