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VC79   Sir Gerald Graham

BORN   27 June 1831

DIED   17 December 1899  AGE   68

VC Won  18 June 1855  AGE  23

Place VC Won  Sebastopol, Crimea

War/Campaign  Crimean War

Name   Sir Gerald Graham   No.   

VC Issue No.   79   Awards   VC    GCB   GCMG

Regiment   Corps of Royal Engineers

Later   

Now   Corps of Royal Engineers

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant-General

Place Of Birth   Acton, London, England

Place Of Death   'Springfield' Bideford, Devon, England

Buried/Location Ashes  East-the-Water Cemetery, Barnstaple Street, Bideford, Devon, England

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   Section C, Grave 523

Gazetted   24 February 1857

VC Presented   26 June 1857 by Queen Victoria at Hyde Park, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, East-the-Water Cemetery, Barnstaple Street, Bideford, Devon, England

P  Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent

Graham Close, off Westcourt Street, Chatham, Kent

Painting in Royal Engineers Officer's Mess, Chatham, Kent

Locomotive nameplate at the Museum of Army Transport, Flemingate, Beverley, North Humberside (duplicate at Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent)

By The Way…

Not only did he fight in the Crimean, he fought in the second Anglo-Chinese war, at the Tuku forts, the Anglo-Egyptian war and Mahdist war.

VC Held By

Owned by the family on display at Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent, England

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