William Capper

William Capper
Born	6 February 1856
Died	15 January 1934 (aged 77) Bath, Somerset, England
Allegiance	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

1. Egypt
2. The London Gazette: no. 24292. p. 589. 11 February 1876. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
3. Cricket Archive
4. The London Gazette: no. 25615. p. 3856. 10 August 1886. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
5. Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (page 82)
6. Army Commands
7. Godden Green War Memorial