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Edward Graham (British Army officer)

Edward Graham (British Army officer)

British Army general (1859–1951)

Major-General Sir Edward Ritchie Coryton Graham KCB KCMG (1859 − 29 January 1951) was a British Army officer.

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Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Graham was commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment in 1878 and saw action as Assistant Adjutant-General in South Africa during the Second Boer War.[1][2] He became commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade in December 1908 and General Officer Commanding South Midland Division in July 1914 before being replaced in August 1914.[3] He then served as a Deputy Adjutant General for the remainder of the war.[2]

He was colonel of the Cheshire Regiment from 1914 to 1928.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "No. 27306". The London Gazette. 19 April 1901. p. 2697.
  2. [2]
    Walford, Edward (January 1860). The county families of the United Kingdom; or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 558.
  3. [3]
    "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  4. [4]
    "The Cheshire Regiment". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 31 December 2006. Retrieved 11 July 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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