Description:Chapters: Thompson Capper, Douglas Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking, Philip Bell, Francis Festing, Euston Henry Sartorius, Basil Arthur Horsfall, Charles O'brien, Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews, Alfred Victor Smith, Collen Edward Melville Richards, H. E. L. Mellersh. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 44. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Major General Sir Thompson Capper KCMG CB DSO (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 the battle of Loos in 1915, Capper was shot by a sniper as he reconnoitred the front line during an assault by his division on German positions. He died the next day in a casualty clearing station from wounds to both lungs; his grave is in the nearby Lillers Communal Cemetery. Capper was an active and vigorous soldier who had been wounded just six months before his death in an accidental grenade detonation. Shortly before this wound he had been knighted by King George V for his service in command of his division during the first battle of Ypres. Field Marshal Sir John French commented upon his death that "he was a most distinguished and capable leader and his death will be severely felt." He was also a keen military historian and his collected papers are currently stored at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College London. Thompson Capper was born in October 1863 to William and Sarah Capper (nee Copeland). William Capper was a civil servant with the Bengal Civil Service and Sarah was the daughter of industrialist William Copeland. Thompson and his elder brother John were born in Lucknow but at a young age were sent to England for their education. Thompson Capper attended Haileybury and Imp...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1213124We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with East Lancashire Regiment Officers: Thompson Capper, Douglas Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking, Philip Bell, Francis Festing, Euston Henry Sartorius. To get started finding East Lancashire Regiment Officers: Thompson Capper, Douglas Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking, Philip Bell, Francis Festing, Euston Henry Sartorius, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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46
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Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1156994381
East Lancashire Regiment Officers: Thompson Capper, Douglas Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking, Philip Bell, Francis Festing, Euston Henry Sartorius
Description: Chapters: Thompson Capper, Douglas Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking, Philip Bell, Francis Festing, Euston Henry Sartorius, Basil Arthur Horsfall, Charles O'brien, Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews, Alfred Victor Smith, Collen Edward Melville Richards, H. E. L. Mellersh. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 44. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Major General Sir Thompson Capper KCMG CB DSO (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 the battle of Loos in 1915, Capper was shot by a sniper as he reconnoitred the front line during an assault by his division on German positions. He died the next day in a casualty clearing station from wounds to both lungs; his grave is in the nearby Lillers Communal Cemetery. Capper was an active and vigorous soldier who had been wounded just six months before his death in an accidental grenade detonation. Shortly before this wound he had been knighted by King George V for his service in command of his division during the first battle of Ypres. Field Marshal Sir John French commented upon his death that "he was a most distinguished and capable leader and his death will be severely felt." He was also a keen military historian and his collected papers are currently stored at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College London. Thompson Capper was born in October 1863 to William and Sarah Capper (nee Copeland). William Capper was a civil servant with the Bengal Civil Service and Sarah was the daughter of industrialist William Copeland. Thompson and his elder brother John were born in Lucknow but at a young age were sent to England for their education. Thompson Capper attended Haileybury and Imp...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1213124We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with East Lancashire Regiment Officers: Thompson Capper, Douglas Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking, Philip Bell, Francis Festing, Euston Henry Sartorius. To get started finding East Lancashire Regiment Officers: Thompson Capper, Douglas Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking, Philip Bell, Francis Festing, Euston Henry Sartorius, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.