Captain Guy Capper BIRT
Royal Army Medical Corps

Date of birth: 6th August 1884
Date of death: 11th June 1972

Survived aged 87
Unknown
Guy Capper Birt was born at Caterham, Surrey on the 6th of August 1884 the son of Daniel Birt, a solicitor, and Mary Ella (nee Capper) Birt of 54 Shooter's Hill, Blackheath.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until July 1898. On leaving the school the magazine wrote the following on him: -

"Will be no unworthy addition to our colony at Wellington. With no brilliant scholastic powers, he is pre-eminently one who always does his best in and out of school. He has been a most useful member of both Second Elevens and a good pianist."

He went on to Wellington College where he was in Mr. Brougham's House from September 1898 to 1902. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps. He trained at the medical school at St Thomas' Hospital in London and at the Royal Dental Hospital obtaining MRCS, LRCP and LDS in 1910 and was registered as a doctor in the Medical Register on the 11th of November that year.

From 1910 to 1914 he was Assistant in the Dental Department at St Thomas' Hospital in London. In 1911 he became Dental Surgeon to the Metropolitan Police, a position he held until 1934. He was a freemason and was admitted as a member of the Cheselden Lodge on the 17th of January 1913.

He was married to Roberta (nee Ross) on the 11th of October 1913 at St Stephen's Church, Comely Bank, Edinburgh and they bought Loxwood, Rockwood Road, Merstham in Surrey for
Went on to Wellington College

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