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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)
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
Lt.-Com. Bertram Robert Graham, Commandant 3rd Battn. KAR, appt 4 Oct 1912 (Blue Book 1916)