James Henry Capps

A Colour Sergeant with 1/4th Battalion. James died on 2nd of January 1915 at the age of 38. 

James was born at Lowestoft on 29 September 1876, a son of James Edward Burwood and Mary Ann Capps. He was baptised at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, on 1 October 1876. In 1881 his family lived at 7 Crown Street, Lowestoft, and by 1891 at 90 Albert Street. James began work as a Post Office sorting clerk and telegraphist at Lowestoft in 1893. 

On 5 July 1901, at Norwich, James enlisted in the Army Post Office Corps, number 750. At the time he was working as a Post Office sorting clerk and telegraphist. He saw active service in the Boer War and was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal. James was discharged, at London, on 18 November 1902 and stated that he intended to live at 88 Albert Street, Lowestoft.  

On 12 May 1908 James married Charlotte Elizabeth Pechey at Saint Nicholas' Church, Great Yarmouth. James was working as a clerk and Charlotte lived at 27 Camperdown, Great Yarmouth. In 1911 they lived at 95 Beresford Road, and later at 88 Park Road, Lowestoft, and James continued to work as a sorting clerk and telegraphist. 

In 1910, at Lowestoft, James enlisted in the 1/4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment. James was mobilized when the war began and he arrived in France with the 1/4th Battalion on 8 November 1914.

James died, at Bailleul, France, from a cerebral haemorrhage contracted on active service.

James' name is recorded in the General Post Office Memorial Book. See GPO War Heroes