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VC808   Sir John Reginald Noble Graham

Name   Sir John Reginald Noble Graham   No.      

VC Issue No.   808   Awards   VC   OBE

Regiment   Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), 9th Battalion attached to the 136th Company Machine Gun Corps

Later   

Now   Disbanded

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant Colonel

Place Of Birth   Calcutta, India

Place Of Death   Edinburgh, Scotland

Buried/Location Ashes   Mortonhall Crematorium, Howden Hall Road, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Cremated   Mortonhall Crematorium, Howden Hall Road, Edinburgh, Scotland

Date Buried/Cremated   11 December 1980

Headstone   Ashes    Plot/Grave no.   Probably near to shrubs along Memorial Walk

Gazetted   14 September 1917

VC Presented   13 December 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Eton School, Windsor, Berkshire

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

By The Way…

In the course of his VC action, he received 6 separate wounds, to his face, left arm, hand, leg and two in the thigh

VC Held By

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum, The Castle, Stirling, Scotland

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BORN   17 September 1892

DIED   6 December 1980   AGE   88

VC Won   22 April 1917   AGE   24

Place VC Won   Istabulat, Mesopotamia (now Iraq)

War/Campaign   First World War 1917