Papers of Maj Gen Sir Thompson Capper, KCMG, CB, DSO (1863-1915)
and Maj Gen Sir John Edward Capper, KCB, KCVO (1861-1955)
Reference code: GB99 KCLMA Capper T
Title: CAPPER, Maj Gen Sir Thompson (1863-1915) and Maj Gen Sir John Edward (1861-1955)
Dates of creation of material: 1888-[1969]
Level of description: item level
Extent: 0.03m3 or 3 boxes of papers
Introduction
Brief List
1 Printed books belonging to Thompson Capper, 1888-1908
2 Papers of Thompson Capper, mainly relating to his work at Staff College, Quetta, and his command of 13 Infantry Bde, Irish Command, 1896-1913
3 Papers of John Edward Capper, mainly comprising notes and a lecture on military aeronautics, and material relating to the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet in World War One, 1900-1918
4 Photocopies of papers relating to the Capper Medal Collection, [1969]
INTRODUCTION
Maj Gen Sir Thompson Capper:
Born in 1863; educated Haileybury and Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, 1880-1882; joined East Lancashire Regt, 1882; Capt, 1891; served with Chitral Relief Expedition, 1895; graduated Staff College, 1897; attached to Egyptian Army, 1897-1899; Brevet Maj, 1898; served during the Reconquest of the Sudan, 1898; Staff Capt (Intelligence), Army Headquarters, 1899; served in Second Boer War, South Africa, as Deputy Assistant Adjutant, and later Assistant Adjutant General, 1899-1902; Brevet Lt Col, 1900; Maj, 1901; Professor, Staff College, Camberley, 1902-1904; Brevet Col, 1904; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1904-1905; Commandant, Staff College, Quetta, India, 1906-1911; Col, 1906; Brig Gen commanding 13 Infantry Bde, Irish Command, 1911-1914; Inspector of Infantry, 1914; commanded 7 Div, Western Front, World War One, 1914; promoted to command 12 Corps, but died of wounds sustained in the Battle of Loos, 1915.
Maj Gen Sir John Edward Capper:
Born in 1861; educated Wellington College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into Royal Engineers as Lt, 1880; employed on military and public works, India and Burma, 1883-1899; Capt, 1889; Maj, 1899; served Second Boer War, South Africa, on engineering staff duties, 1899-1902; Brevet Lt Col, 1900; Military Governor of Johannesburg; Commandant, Balloon School, Farnborough, 1903-1910; Lt Col and Brevet Col, 1905; Col, 1910; Commandant, School of Military Engineering, 1911-1914; served World War One, 1914-1918; Deputy Inspector General, Lines of Communication, 1914; Chief Engineer, 3 Corps and 3 Army, 1915; General Officer Commanding 24 Div, 1915-1917; Director General, Tank Corps, 1917; Director General, War Office, 1917-1918; commanded 64 Div, Forces in Great Britain, 1918-1919; Commander, Number 1 Area, British Troops in France and Flanders, 1919; Lt Governor and Commanding Troops in Guernsey, 1920-1925; Col Commandant Royal Tank Regt, 1921; retired, 1925; served in Home Guard during World War Two; died 1955.
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1971.
The collection is mainly comprised of papers and books collected by Thompson Capper whilst Commandant of Staff College, Quetta, India, and includes notes on the Manchurian War (Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905), events in British Somaliland and their consequences, 1913, and papers relating to the dismissal of Major Berkley Vincent from his post as a professor at the Staff College, 1910-1911. There are also papers relating to his command of 13 Infantry Bde, Irish Command, 1911-1914, notably official training instructions relating to artillery, and correspondence relating to infantry formations under artillery fire.
The papers of John Edward Capper are fewer, and mainly comprise his notes and a text of a lecture on military aeronautics, 1910-1913. Also included are copies of telegrams and memoranda relating to the operation by the British Grand Fleet to escort the German High Seas Fleet to Scapa Flow for internment, 1918.
The papers relating to the Capper Medal Collection give biographical information on several generations of the Capper family, including Thompson and John Edward, 1969.
The collection is divided into the papers of Thompson Capper, those of his brother, John Edward Capper, and notes on the Capper Medal Collection.
Access
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Copyright
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the College Archivist.
Language
English.
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