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Lieutenant General Sir Gerald Graham,
VC GCB GCMG (
27 June 1831 -
17 December 1899) was an
English recipient of the
Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to
British and
Commonwealth forces. He was born at
Acton, Middlesex, and after studying at
Wimbledon and
Dresden he was admitted (
1847) to the
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and completed his military training in the
School of Military Engineering at
Chatham.
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He was 23 years old, and a
lieutenant in the
Corps of Royal Engineers,
British Army during the
Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On
18 June 1855 in the
Crimea, Lieutenant Graham, accompanied by a sapper (
John Perie) showed determined gallantry at the head of a ladder party at the assault on the
Redan at
Sebastopol. He also went out on numerous occasions to bring in wounded officers and men.
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During the campaign in
China he again displayed great courage and skill and, although seriously wounded in the storming of the Taku forts (August 21,
1860), subsequently entered
Peking with the victors. Following his return to England in
1861, he was for 16 years commanding engineer successively at
Brighton,
Aldershot,
Montreal,
Chatham,
Manchester, and
York. In
1877 he was appointed assistant director of works for barracks at the
War Office.
In
1882 he accompanied
Sir Garnet Wolseley to
Egypt as
brigadier general, and his forces had a great share in the victorious campaign against
Urabi Pasha. In
1884 he took the field against
Osman Digna, whose army he defeated at
El-Teb and
Tamai. In the meantime he'd urged a plan for the assistance of
Gordon, which, however, wasn't accepted.
Graham was made a G.C.B. in
1896, and a colonel commandant of the Corps of
Royal Engineers in
1899.
The medal
His Victoria Cross is currently owned by Graham's Great Great Great Grandson Oliver Brooks and is displayed at the
Royal Engineers Museum (Gillingham, England).
Works
He published a number of scientific papers and a contribution to the
Fortnightly Review, entitled "Last Words with Gordon" (1887), and prepared a translation of Goetze's
Operations of the German Engineers and Technical Troops during the Franco-German War of 1870-71 (1875).
Publications
- Vetch, Life, Letters, and Diaries of Lieut.-General Sir Gerald Graham (Edinburgh, 1901).
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