Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, date clasps unofficially attached (7338 Pte. E. C. L. Graham. Vol. Coy: Oxford: L.I.), with top silver pin brooch, minor edge cut, very fine £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

View
Collection

Edwin Charles Laurie Graham was born in 1876, at Oxford. In the 1911 Census he is recorded as a 35 year old cap and hat maker, residing at 87 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford. He died in Oxford in 1962.

Sold together with an unattributed newspaper cutting regarding the return of the Oxford Volunteers from the war in South Africa, in which Private Graham is named; and a small portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform wearing his medal.