GB 0099 KCLMA Capper J - CAPPER, Maj Gen Sir John Edward (1861-1955)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Capper J Created 1900, [1910], [1913], 1917-1918, [1969] Collection (fonds) 0.05 box or 0.005 cubic metres Capper , Sir , John Edward , 1861-1955 , Knight , Major General

Born in 1861; commissioned into Royal Engineers, 1880; employed on military and public works, India and Burma, 1883-1899; served in South Africa, 1899-1902; Commandant, Balloon School, 1903-1910; Commandant, School of Military Engineering, 1911-1914; 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 64th Div, Forces in Great Britain, 1918-1919; Commander, No 1 Area, British Troops in France and Flanders, 1919; Lt Governor and Commanding Troops in Guernsey, 1920-1925; retired in 1925; died in 1955.

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1971.

Papers relating to the military career of Maj Gen Sir John Edward Capper, dated 1900, [1910] and [1913], 1917-1918, principally comprising typescript notes on military aeronautics, [1910]; text of his lecture to the Staff College on the effect of aircraft on war, [1913]; telegrams between German High Seas Fleet and V Adm Sir David Beatty, Commander-in-Chief of the British Grand Fleet, concerning the surrender of the former at Scapa Flow, 1918; 'Report of the commission appointed by Act of Parliament to enquire into the operations of war in Mesopotamia' (London, HMSO, 1917). Copy of typescript text on the Capper Medal Collection, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, [1969], including brief biographies of members of the Capper family.

This material is catalogued as sections 3 and 4 of the Capper family collection. Sections 1 and 2 consist of papers relating to Capper's brother Maj Gen Sir Thompson Capper.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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 Director of Archive Services.
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Detailed catalogue available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

  Jan 1997 Air transport Armed forces Beatty , David , 1871-1936 , 1st Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby , Admiral of the Fleet x Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby , 1st Earl Capper , Sir , John Edward , 1861-1955 , Knight , Major General Europe German Navy Hipper , Franz , von , 1863-1932 , German Admiral x von Hipper , Franz International conflicts International relations Iraq Mesopotamia Middle East Military aviation Military organizations Organizations Orkney RN , Royal Navy x Royal Navy Scapa Flow Scotland State security Transport UK War Western Europe World War One (1914-1918) World wars (events) Wars (events) London England

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1971.

Papers relating to the military career of Maj Gen Sir John Edward Capper, dated 1900, [1910] and [1913], 1917-1918, principally comprising typescript notes on military aeronautics, [1910]; text of his lecture to the Staff College on the effect of aircraft on war, [1913]; telegrams between German High Seas Fleet and V Adm Sir David Beatty, Commander-in-Chief of the British Grand Fleet, concerning the surrender of the former at Scapa Flow, 1918; 'Report of the commission appointed by Act of Parliament to enquire into the operations of war in Mesopotamia' (London, HMSO, 1917). Copy of typescript text on the Capper Medal Collection, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, [1969], including brief biographies of members of the Capper family.

This material is catalogued as sections 3 and 4 of the Capper family collection. Sections 1 and 2 consist of papers relating to Capper's brother Maj Gen Sir Thompson Capper.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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 Director of Archive Services.

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English

Detailed catalogue available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

• English