Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Major H. S. Graham, Royal Engineers

1914-15 Star (Capt., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., unnamed, with top bar (lacking pin fitting), slight contact marks, very fine and better (4) £120-160

‘The death took place at Fowey Hospital on Thursday (4 October 1928) of Major Henry Salkeld Graham, Town Clerk of Fowey. Aged 40 years, Major Graham was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs W. J. Graham of Malvern and formerly of Carnethic, Fowey. He practised at Fowey as a Solicitor, was clerk to Fowey Port Sanitary Authority, Secretary of several public companies and Warden of the Fowey Parish Church. Major Graham had acted as Town Clerk of Fowey since the inception of the Borough in about 1912. .... On the outbreak of war he went to Falmouth and formed his Company No.2 Works Company (T.A.) and proceeded to France with them early in 1915. For a long period he was stationed near the Ypres salient and remained in that area until the Armistice. ...’ (Obituary, taken from The St. Austell Gazette and Cornwall County News).

During the Great War, Graham served with the Cornwall (Fortress) Royal Engineers, No. 2 Works Company. Sold with some copied research.