Harold Edgar Capper

A Gunner with 387 Battery, 121 H.A.A. Regiment, Harold died on 13th of August 1946 at the age of 37. 

Harold was born at Canterbury on 16 February 1909, a son of William Richard and Ellen Alice Capper. In 1911 his family lived at 4 Military Road, Canterbury.

Harold married Violet Adelaide Hatcher at Saint Mary the Virgin Church, Orlestone, Kent, on 6 September 1930. In 1939 Harold and Violet lived at 2 Coronation Cottages, Worth, Kent, and Harold worked as a nurseryman (foreman).

By autumn 1941 Harold was serving in the Royal Artillery. Tragically Harold and Violet's son and daughter were killed in an air-raid at Sturry, Kent, on 18 November 1941.

Harold was discharged, medically unfit, on 24 June 1943. He died in 1946: his death being registered in the Wandsworth district of London.

At some point Violet moved to live at Lowestoft and she married William Holmes at Lowestoft in 1949. 

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