Captain Bass Durant Capper

Regiment: Royal Flying Corps
Date published: 22/03/1918
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 06/12/1917
Age at death: 29
Cemetery: Belfast City Cemetery, Antrim, United Kingdom
Plot: K. 29.
Information: Captain Bass Durant Capper, Royal Flying Corps, younger son of Mr. Bass Capper of Lenoxvale, Belfast, died on Thursday. 6th December, at Coombe Lodge Hospital, Great Warley, Essex, from injuries received while flying as an observer just a week before. He was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and previous to the war was engaged in the firm of B. Capper and Co., Ltd., Belfast. He was an active member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, and being an expert motorist he volunteered immediately the war broke out, joining the Royal Engineers as a despatch rider, being probably the first man in Ireland to volunteer in this capacity. He went to France on the 26th September, 1914, and was attached to General Headquarters under General French. After six months there he was, at his own request, transferred to the 7th Division, with which he saw much active service on nearly all parts of the Western front. In the summer of 1916 he received a commission in the Royal Flying Corps, and for several months was regularly on duty over the German lines.