Auction Catalogue

4 & 5 December 2008

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 466

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5 December 2008

Hammer Price:
£160

Tenants of the Estates of Mossknowe & Wyseby Boer War Tribute Scroll to Lieutenant W. A. Graham, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, being a hand-illuminated address on vellum, signed by five representatives of the district (‘We are proud of your record at the Front and of the high esteem in which you were held by your superior officers, both as a soldier and a gentleman ...’), in its red leather, gilt decorated box, but lacking lid; together with related Matriculation of the Arms of Graham of Mossknowe, being an extract taken from the 36th Volume of the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, on vellum, and Graham’s hand-illuminated Arms, signed by the Lord Lyons’ clerk and dated 16 of June 1944, in its red leather box with gilt G.V.R. cypher, in excellent condition (2) £100-150

William Fergus Graham was born in 1874, the eldest son of Major-General John Gordon Graham of Mossknowe and Wyseby, Dumfriesshire, late 1st Dragoons, and was commissioned in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers as a 2nd Lieutenant in April 1900. Quickly embarked for South Africa, initially on attachment to the 3rd Battalion, he was present in operations in Cape Colony, north of the Orange River, and in the Transvaal, north of Pretoria, in 1901, and gained advancement to Lieutenant in June of the latter year. Returning to his estates in Scotland on his father’s death in 1911, Grahame was a J.P. for Dumfriesshire and was awarded the O.B.E. in 1939.