Colonel William Baume Capper

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(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 Bath () is a city in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary area in the county of Somerset, England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths. At the 2021 Census, the population was 101,557. Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, ...

,Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. his father William Copeland Capper having been in the Bengal Civil Service. Educated at Haileybury, Capper was commissioned into the

85th Regiment of Foot The 85th (Bucks Volunteers) Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot to form the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1881. H ...

in 1876 and subsequently played

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for Shropshire in 1882-83 and for

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. 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 The British conquest of Egypt (1882), also known as Anglo-Egyptian War (), occurred in 1882 between Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Ahmed ‘Urabi and the United Kingdom. It ended a nationalist uprising against the Khedive Tewfik Pasha. It ...

and in the

Mahdist War The Mahdist War ( ar, الثورة المهدية, ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya; 1881–1899) was a war between the Mahdist Sudanese of the religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided On ...

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from 1884 to 1885.''Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour'' by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (page 82)
/ref> He was Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst from 1907 to 1911 and then served in World War I, following which he was made a

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 Major General Sir Thompson Capper, (20 October 1863 – 27 September 1915) was a highly decorated and senior British Army officer who served with distinction in the Second Boer War and was a divisional commander during the First World War. At th ...

KCMG, CB, DSO who was killed in World War I, and another was Major-General Sir John Edward Capper.Sir John Edward Capper
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', retrieved 11 August 2007 (subscription needed)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Capper, William 1856 births 1934 deaths Military personnel from 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