GRAHAM, C.; b.; in school list 1797.
GRAHAM, CAROLUS JAMES HOME, brother of Thomas James Graham-Stirling (qv); b. 24 May 1812; adm. 22 Sep 1824 (Stelfox's); at Haileybury Coll. 1830-1; Writer, EICS Bengal 1831; arrived India 14 Sep 1831; Assistant to Commissioner of Revenue and circuit, Cuttack 27 Dec 1832; held various subsequent appointments; resigned in India 1 May 1846 and returned home; d. 30 Oct 1877.
Graham, Cecil John Hart, brother of Herbert Henry Cecil Graham (q.v.); b. July 14, 1899; adm. April 28, 1910 (A); left Dec. 1917; 2nd Lieut. Rifle Brigade, June 20, 1940.
Graham, Eric Charles, brother of Herbert Henry Cecil Graham (q.v.); b. Nov. 16, 1903; adm. May 2, 1917 (A); left Dec. 1918.
Graham, Eric Clive, youngest son of Lionel Henry Graham, of New York City, U. S. A., by Hilda Adeline, daughter of Louisa Whitaker, of Blackheath, Kent; b. June 28, 1894; adm. Sept. 23, 1909 (A); left July 1913; went to Ingleden Park, Kent, to learn agriculture with a view to farming in Canada; enlisted in the Public Schools Batt. of the Royal Fusiliers in Aug. 1914; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. (Reserve) the Manchester Regt. May 26, 1915; left England Feb. 17, 1916, and joined the 1st Batt. of his regiment at Busreh, on the Tigris, March 24; was invalided to Bombay in June, but returned to Busreh Oct. 12, 1916; killed in action at Kut-elAmara, Mesopotamia, Jan. 9, 1917; unm.
Graham, Evelyn Ronald Brodrick Cloete, fifth son of Lawrence Graham, of Hardelot, Pas de Calais, France, by Edith Margaret, daughter of James Dickson Park, of London; b. June 21, 1885; adm. May 3, 1900 (H); left July 1902; adm. a solicitor Feb. 1909; in practice in London; joined the Inns of Court O. T. C. April 3, 1917; 2nd Lieut. 22nd Batt. the London Regt. May 28, 1918, attached to 1st Gurkhas and 74th Punjabis in Palestine and Egypt; president of the Elizabethan Club 1949-52; m. Dec. 2, 1916, Ada Nora, sister of Hardington Arthur Bartlett (q.v.); d. Oct. 13, 1961.
GRAHAM, FERGUS JAMES, eldest son of Rev. Fergus Graham LLD, Prebendary of Ripon and Rector of Arthuret and Kirkandrews-upon-Esk, Cumberland, and his first wife Johanna, dau. of Robert Gale, Carlisle; grandson of Robert Graham (qv); b. 1792; adm. Lady Day 1808; Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 26 Apr 1811, aged 18, matr. Easter 1811; Cornet, 2nd Dragoon Guards 27 Jan 1814; Lieut., 30 May 1816; half-pay 10 Apr 1817, retd. 12 Feb 1833; Postmaster at Carlisle 11 Nov 1831; HBM Consul at Bayonne 19 Aug 1842 – 1 Oct 1874; m. 1st, 1818 Alethea, only dau. of William Evans James, Liverpool; m. 2nd, 1851 Frances, dau. of William Ellis, Castle Field, Yorks.; d. 16 Jan 1881.
GRAHAM, GEORGE; b.; at school 1792 (Clapham from 24 Oct 1795); in school lists 1795, 1797; probably “Graham” who played cricket v. Eton at Lord’s 8 Aug 1799.
Graham, Hartley Brisco, son of Hartley Graham, solicitor, of Penrith, Cumbria, and Alice Emma, d. of George Arthur Rivington of Penrith; b. 20 Jan. 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (R); left July 1929; adm. a solicitor Jan. 1935; practised at Penrith; RA 1939-42 (Lieut.); d. of wounds (Libya) 1 June 1942.
Hartley Brisco Graham was born at Penrith, Cumberland on the 20th of January 1911 the younger son of Hartley Graham, a solicitor, and Alice Margaret Emma (nee Rimington) Graham of “The Larches”, Penrith in Cumberland. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith and at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from September 1924 to July 1929. He served as a Lance Corporal in the Officer Training Corps. On leaving school he qualified as a solicitor and worked in his father’s business at Penrith.
He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in the Territorial Army on the 24th of May 1939.
He was posted to 72 (Northumbrian) Field Regiment which embarked on board the SS Empress of Asia at Liverpool on the 21st of April 1941 for service in the Middle East. The Regiment landed at Port Tewfik in Egypt on the 23rd of June and by April 1942 they were based at Bir Geff in Libya as part of the 150th Infantry Brigade. On the 21st of April they handed over these positions and relocated to Rotunda Ualeb, between the Trigh El Abd and Trigh Capuzzo, which formed part of the British defences known as the Gazala Line. Their position was known as the Sidi Muftah Box.
On the 30th of May 1942, General Erwin Rommel, commanding officer of the Afrika Corps, made a personal reconnaissance of the area leading to the Sidi Muftah Box with a view to making a major attack on it the following day. Later in the day his men began clearing lanes on the eastern side of the protective British minefields in preparation for the attack. Once this was completed a column of German motorised infantry attacked and penetrated the British positions before being thrown back by the infantry supported by tanks.
On the morning the 31st of May 1942, General Rommel made a formal request to General Cecil William Haydon, officer commanding 150th Infantry Brigade, for the surrender of his garrison. This demand was met without a response. A short time later a heavy artillery bombardment preceded an attack by elements of the German 90th Light Division and the Italian Trieste Division on the British positions. They forced their way forward “against the toughest British resistance imaginable” in intense close quarter fighting before being forced back with heavy losses several hours after their attack had begun. An hour later the attack resumed with the Axis infantry being supported by tanks and with several breaks in the lines being made, all of which were closed after bitter fighting. In spite of the hard fighting by the defenders, by nightfall, when both sides drew back, the size of the Box had halved in size.
On the morning of the 1st of June 1942, the beleaguered defenders were heavily bombarded by artillery and by Junkers 87 “Stuka” dive bombers before massed German and Italian infantry and tanks renewed their assault. After very heavy, often hand to hand, fighting the Sidi Muftah Box fell in the early afternoon with the capture of more than 3,000 prisoners and the destruction or capture of 124 guns and 101 tanks and armoured cars. Rommel came forward to congratulate General Haydon on the magnificent way his troops had fought, only find that his opponent had been killed by shellfire earlier in the day. Hartley Graham was one of the many casualties from the three days of fighting.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Penrith and on the memorial at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith.
He is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial Column 31.
Graham, Herbert Henry Cecil, son of Thomas Henry Boileau Graham, of Cricklewood, Middlesex, barrister-at-law; b. July 8, 1896; adm. April 28, 1910 (A); left July 1912: served in Great War I; Sub-Lieut. R. N. V. R. July 8, 1918; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1914; B.A. 1919; called to the bar (Inner Temple) June 1922; a Special Commissioner of Taxes 1935; m. Katherine Helen Woodman; d. July 31, 1950.