Major-General Sir Thompson Capper, was a 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 reconnoitered 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.
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- October 20, 1863
- Died
- September 27, 1915
