Lives of the First World War

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ID: 708678

Reference: WO372/4

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal index cards were created by the Army Medal Office towards the end of the First World War. They record the medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim.

UPP: GBM/MCI/0709232

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ID: 8580794

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

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UPP: GBM/MCI/5187297

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ID: 8580800

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

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UPP: GBM/MCI/5187298

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ID: 8580802

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

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UPP: GBM/MCI/5187299

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ID: 8580803

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

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UPP: GBM/MCI/5187300

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ID: 8580804

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

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UPP: GBM/MCI/5187301

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ID: 8580805

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

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UPP: GBM/MCI/5187302

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ID: 8580806

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

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UPP: GBM/MCI/5333507

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ID: 8581265

Title: Portrait photograph of Maj-Gen John Edward Capper

Description: Major-General John Edward Capper KCB KCVO. Unit: Commanding 24th Division, transferred to Tank Corps as Director General. Death: 24 May 1955.

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ID: 9137858

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/06252/0337/1

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ID: 9137870

Name: John Capper

Title: Wikipedia entry for Major-General Sir John Edward Capper

Description: Major-General Sir John Edward Capper KCB KCVO (7 December 1861 – 24 May 1955) was a senior officer of the British Army during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, on the North-West Frontier of British India, in South Africa and during the First World War, where he was instrumental in the development of the tank. In 1914, as a brigadier-general, Capper was first made deputy inspector of the lines of communication before being given the post of Chief Engineer to the Third Corps. In July 1915 he was promoted to major-general and made chief engineer of the British Third Army. In May 1917, he was recalled to England, initially to run the Machine-Gun Corps training centre and from 28 July hold the position of Director-General of the newly formed Tank Corps at the War Office.

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Capper
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ID: 9137882

Title: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Capper, Sir John Edward

Description: Capper, Sir John Edward (1861–1955), army officer, was born at Lucknow, India, on 7 December 1861, the second son of William Copeland Capper of the Bengal civil service and his wife, Sarah. His younger brother, Major-General Sir Thompson Capper, was killed at Loos in September 1915. On 9 May 1915 he became chief engineer of the 3rd corps, and two months later he became chief engineer of the Third Army, having received promotion to major-general on 3 July 1915. However, on 3 October 1915 he received command of the 24th division. In May 1917 he moved to command the machine-gun corps training centre but on 28 July he took up the appointment of director-general of the tank corps and on 1 September director-general of the War Office tank directorate, having also been considered as a possible director-general of military aeronautics.

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URL: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-41054?rskey=O0izkl&result=1
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ID: 9137900

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/D/1955/2/AZ/000154/056

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9137902

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2005 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/M/1895/4/AZ/000058/293

Additional: 1911 census gives wife's birthplace and year of marriage

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ID: 9137909

Title: Lifestory of brother, Major General Sir Thompson Capper

Description: Capper, Sir Thompson (1863–1915), army officer, was born in Lucknow, India, on 20 October 1863. He was the third son of William Copeland Capper of the Bengal civil service and his wife, Sarah, the daughter of William Taylor Copeland. His older brother was Sir John Capper. On 25 September 1915 the 7th Division took its first objectives but was heavily counter-attacked. Accounts vary as to whether Capper was trying to encourage his men or to urge forward a ‘sticky’ unit and whether or not he was riding his horse in full view of the enemy. He was hit by a sniper and died on the following day, 26 September 1915.

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URL: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/708731
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ID: 9296430

Name: Page 843 Issue 13085

Reference: downloaded

Title: London Gazette Legion d'Honneur

Description: John Edward Capper connected to Legion d'Honneur and CB

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