George Augustus Stewart Cape

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 World War I.[1]

Cape was born in Lee, Kent (now in London), the son of George Augustus and Mary Catherine Cape. He was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey.[2]

He 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.[3][4]

He was awarded the Companion of St Michael and St George in the 1918 New Year Honours for his efforts during the First World War.[5] He died in active service, in France aged 51 and is remembered at a cemetery in Péronne, Somme.[1]

References
  1. Manchester, Reading. "CWGC - Casualty Details". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
  2. Charterhouse Register, 1872-1900. 1904. p. 171. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  3. "No. 27163". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 February 1900. p. 910.
  4. "No. 27168". The London Gazette. 23 February 1900. p. 1257.
  5. "No. 30450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1918. p. 4.
  • Hart's Army list, 1901
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