William Capper

William Capper
Born (1856-02-06)6 February 1856
Died 15 January 1934(1934-01-15) (aged 77)
Bath, Somerset, England
Allegiance United Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service 1876–1913
Rank Colonel
Commands held RMC Sandhurst
Awards Commander 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, his father William Copeland Capper having been in the Bengal Civil Service. Educated at Haileybury,[1] Capper was commissioned into the 85th Regiment of Foot in 1876[2] and subsequently played cricket for Shropshire.[3] He became adjutant of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1886.[4] 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.[5] He was Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst from 1907 to 1911[6] and then served in World War I.[5]

Family

In 1888 he married Helen Margaret Parry; they had two daughters.[5] 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,[7] and another was Major-General Sir John Edward Capper.

References

Military offices
Preceded by
Gerald Kitson
Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst
19071911
Succeeded by
Lionel Stopford
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