Brigadier-General George Augustus Stewart Cape, CMG (28 March 1867 – 18 March 1918) was a brigadier general in the 39th Division, Royal Artillery of the British Army during the First World War.[1]
George Cape | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | George Augustus Stewart Cape |
| Born | 28 March 1867 Lee, Kent, England |
| Died | 18 March 1918 (aged 50) France |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service | British Army |
| Years of service | 1889–1918 |
| Rank | Brigadier-General |
| Unit | Royal Artillery |
| Commands | 39th Division, Royal Artillery |
| Battles / wars | |
| Awards | Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Mentioned in Despatches (3) |
Military career
editCape was born in Lee, Kent (now in London), the son of George Augustus Cape, an author and co-founder of the accounting firm Cape & Dalgleish,[2] and Mary Catherine Cape. He was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey.[3]
Cape was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a second lieutenant on 13 November 1889, promoted to lieutenant on 13 November 1892, and served in Uganda in 1898, for which he received the East and Central Africa Medal. The following year he was seconded to South Africa where he served on Special Service during the Second Boer War. He was promoted to captain on 9 January 1900.[4][5]
Cape was appointed a Companion of St Michael and St George in the 1918 New Year Honours for his efforts during the First World War.[6] He died on active service, in France aged 50 and is remembered at a cemetery in Péronne, Somme.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Manchester, Reading. "CWGC – Casualty Details". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
- ^ Parrott, Jeremy (2018). "Lohrli Revisited: Newly Identified Contributors to Household Words". Dickens Quarterly. 35 (2): 110–126. doi:10.1353/dqt.2018.0011. ISSN 2169-5377.
- ^ School, Charterhouse (1904). Charterhouse Register, 1872-1900. p. 171. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ "No. 27163". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 February 1900. p. 910.
- ^ "No. 27168". The London Gazette. 23 February 1900. p. 1257.
- ^ "No. 30450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1918. p. 4.