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Edward Augustus Capener

Biography

Surname:  Capener
Christian name(s):  Edward Augustus
Date of birth:  1876
Place of birth:  North Nibley, Gloucestershire
Parents:  Thomas and Fanny Capener
Wife:  Annie Elizabeth Cooper
Date of marriage:  7 June 1896
Children:  Dorothy Ivy, William Edward, Annie Christina, Charles Richard, Helen Minnie
Pre-WW1 occupation:  Farm labourer
 
Rank:  Private
Number:  20554
Served:  Gloucestershire Regiment;
​               7th (Service) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals awarded:  1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
 
Date of death:  11 March 1917
Place of death:  Mesopotamia (probably Kut al-Amara)
Commemorated:  CWGC War Cemetery, Amara (Iraq)
War memorials:  Frampton on Severn War Memorial; Plaque in Frampton Village Hall​
 
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