Edward Francis Irvine GRAHAM ¹

  General Notes:

Eddie Graham was sent by his father Colonel Graham to Queensland, Australia to gain colonial experience at the age of 17. He also worked for a squatter on the Darling Downs. He left there after 12 months & worked on a boat bringing Kanakas (South Pacific Islanders) down to cut sugar cane in Queensland. After this Eddie moved to South Africa where he joined the Natal Mounted Police. When the Boer War started he joined Thorneycrofts Mounted Infantry (the tenth regiment raised in the colony.) Eddie met his wife - originally Beatrice Walton of Halifax - in South Africa shortly before the start of the Boer War, they had seven children two of whom died young. They lived in Canada for a time. Keighley, the fourth child was born in Winnipeg. Eddie also fought in the 1914-18 war. Eddie & his family started farming at Shifnall in Shropshire in 1919, his wife died in 1927, Eddie died in 1956.

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Six: Private E.F.I. Graham, Army Service Corps, Late Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry
Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (913 Pte. E.F. Graham Th'Crofts M.I.), last two clasps loose on riband; 1914-15 Star (M2-019056 Pte. E.FI. Graham. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M2-019056 Pte. E.F.I. Graham. A.S.C.); Defence Medal, generally good very fine, with Silver War Badge, reverse numbered '377200', and a portrait photograph of recipient in later life (6)

M2-019056 Private Edward Francis Irvine Graham, born St. Peter Port, Guernsey; son of Colonel Graham, and as a result of a second marriage he was brought up in Castle Crine, Country Clare, Ireland; worked in Queensland, Australia prior to service during the Boer War; served during the Great War in the French theatre of war, from 25.12.1914; after the war Graham farmed near Shifnal, Shropshire.

Edward married Beatrice WALTON, daughter of Keighley WALTON and Eliza CROWTHER. (Beatrice WALTON was born in Jul 1872 in Southport, Lancashire, England and died on 7 Jan 1927 in Sheriff Hales, Shifnal, Shropshire , England.)

Edward next married Nina Edith JONES, daughter of Rice JONES and Mary Jane, in Mar 1928 in Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, Wales. (Nina Edith JONES was christened on 9 Aug 1891 in Longden upon Tern, Shropshire, England and died in Jun 1935 in Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire, England.)

Edward next married Anne.