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Name: GRAHAM, Bertram Robert (Lieut.-Col.)
Birth Date: 19.12.1872 Bankipore, India
Death Date: 11.3.1916 Latema Hill, Tanganyika, killed in action
First Date: 1904
Last Date: 1916
Profession: KAR
Area: EAHB 1906 Entebbe
Married: In Toorak, Melbourne 10 Aug 1911 Hilda Blanche Blois Johnson née Grantham
Children: Peter (2 Aug 1912); Pamela Dorothy (18 Dec 1913 Nairobi-2000); David Bertram (posthumous 5 Apr 1916 Nairobi)
Book Reference: Sitrep 6, Moyse, Cranworth, EAHB 1905, CWGC, EAHB 1906, Gazette, North, Leader14
War Service: Corps of Guides, Indian Army, o/c 3 KAR
School: Bedford School, RMC Sandhurst
General Information:
Sitrep 6 - Africa General Service Medal 1902-56 - Nandi 1905-06 - This bar was awarded for service in Nandi country under Lt. Col. E.G. Harrison, DSO (RO), Maj. Walker (RF) and Capt. MacKay (Seaforths). Regiments present: 1,3,4, KAR and EA Police Force. Medals are known to an officer of the 'Mombasa Defence Force' and Capt. B.R. Graham, QO Corps of Guides.
Moyse - 1909 - commanded part of 4 KAR in Somaliland ......... Oct. 1912 - command of 3 KAR
EAHB 1905 - Acting Adjutant and Intelligence Officer, 4th Batt. KAR, Uganda
CWGC - Taveta War Cemetery - Lieut.-Colonel Bertram Robert Graham, Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (F.F.) (Lumsden's) Commanding 3rd King's African Rifles. 11th March 1916. Age 41. Son of Charles John Graham and Kathleen Louise Sutherland Graham; husband of Hilda Blanche Blois Johnson (formerly Graham), of The Mount, Petersfield, Hants. IX.A.2
Gazette - 22/3/16 - Obituary - Went to Uganda in 1904 [more]
Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - Promotion - Lt.-Col. B.R. Graham ….. is granted the local rank of Colonel while commanding the troops at Voi.
Sitrep 6 - Africa General Service Medal 1902-5 - East Africa 1913-14 - Awarded for operations under Lt. Col. B.R. Graham (3 KAR) against the Merehan tribe. Units involved were: 3 KAR, C Coy 1 KAR and S&T Indian Army.
Re Ruvigny's Roll of Honour
Blue Book 1916 Lt.-Com. Bertram Robert Graham, Commandant 3rd Battn. KAR, appt 4 Oct 1912
Brigadier-General John Henry Verinder Crowe, C.B General Smuts' Campaign in East Africa, 1918 At about 4.30 p.m. No. 9 Battery crossed the river and was brought into action on the south side of the village. Shortly after their arrival the 5th South African Battery came up with the 2nd South African Infantry Brigade from Chala, and were brought into action on the right of No. 9. Meanwhile, the infantry were gradually pushing forward. On the left the King's African Rifles had made considerable progress. At about 5:00 p.m., as they were making a rush led by their Colonel, a voice was heard shouting: 'Come on, the King's African Rifles, this way!' Colonel Graham turned in the direction indicated, and fell, having received five bullets from a machine gun. It was the German machine gunner who, in excellent English, had been cheering them on. It is gratifying to know that the cunning German and the whole of his crew were wiped out later, and that the gun fell into our hands.