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on the list of the Open Championship. On one occasion in particular at
Muirfield he finished immediately after the great 'triumvirate' and
gave Taylor, who was drawn with him, one of the most agitating days
of his long career. Capt. Graham was a great golfer. He could not but
have been sometimes disappointed on account of his comparative lack of
success, and he knew that his friends at Hoylake were more bitterly
disappointed on his behalf than he ever was on his own. Not only did
no word of complaint or excuse ever escape him, but he never for one
moment fell into the opposite error of pretending that he did not
care. He took his ups and downs with perfect modesty and quietness,
and was always interested in the play and the success of others. At
Marlborough he distinguished himself at football, cricket and racquets,
and if he had had time to play might have made a name for himself as a
cricketer, but he always worked very hard at his business. Indeed he
played comparatively little golf, but it was remarkable how he could so
constantly play a very fine game with so little practice--an occasional
Saturday afternoon and perhaps an evening walk on the links with two
clubs under his arm, being apparently all the practice that he needed."

 [Illustration: =John Graham, Jun.=]

=GRAHAM, MALCOLM HEWLEY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Alexandra, Princess
of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regt., only _s._ of Hewley Smales
Graham, of Oxley-Woodhouse, Huddersfield; _b._ New Mill, near
Huddersfield, 22 Nov. 1894; educ. Repton and Pembroke College,
Cambridge, where he was studying for the medical profession; on the
outbreak of war volunteered and was gazetted to the 3rd Yorkshire
Regt., 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front the following March, and was
there attached to the 2nd Battn. He was promoted Lieut., 2 Feb., 1915,
and was killed in action at Givenchy, near La Bassée, 15 June, 1915,
and was buried close to Givenchy Church; _unm._ His Colonel wrote:
"He was most gallantly leading his platoon when he fell, shot through
the neck. Your son was a most excellent officer, very keen and hard
working and he will be a great loss to the battn. Please accept the
deepest sympathy of all ranks in your great loss." Lieut. Graham was
a fine athlete. At Repton he shot at Bisley for his school, and at
Cambridge he rowed in the "Lents" and "Mays," and was in the boat that
won the Clinker Fours. He also rowed at Henley in 1914, where his boat
won the Ladies' Challenge Plate, and he was elected a member of the
Leander Club.

 [Illustration: =Malcolm Hewley Graham.=]

=GRAHAME, JOHN GORDON=, L.-Corpl., No. 1894, Honourable Artillery
Company)(T.F.), yr. _s._ of the late Thomas Grahame, Canadian
Government Agent for Scotland, by his wife, Margaret Elizabeth
(Cumberland House, Horley, Surrey), only dau. of William Tyrwhitt,
sometime of Nantyr Hall, Denbighshire, and grandson of the Rev. James
Grahame, author of "The Sabbath"; _b._ Glaudhall, Chryston,
Glasgow, 12 March, 1885; educ. Glasgow High School and Dulwich
College; and was in the employ of Harris & Dixon, Shipowners; on the
outbreak of war volunteered and joined the H.A.C. in Sept. 1914;
went to France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 24
April, 1915; _unm._ He was buried behind the trenches of St. Eloi
near Voormezeele, in the grounds of the Chateau of Elsinvelles. His
Commanding Officer wrote that he was much loved and respected by all
his platoon, and he as well as others would miss him both as a friend
and a soldier.

 [Illustration: =John Gordon Grahame.=]

=GRAINGER, ALBERT VICTOR=, Private, No. 2336, 4th Battn. The
Suffolk Regt. (T.F), yst. _s._ of Henry Rampling Grainger, of
94, Kemball Street, Ipswich, Gardener, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of
James Brown; _b._ Ipswich, 16 Oct. 1889; educ. St. John's School
there; and was a Boiler Maker; volunteered after the outbreak of war
and enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to France, 6 Nov., and died, in No.
7 Clearing Hospital, 13 March, 1915, of wounds received in action at
Neuve Chapelle on the 11th. He _m._ at Buckersham, 12 March, 1911,
Grace (4, Tennyson Road, Ipswich), dau. of William Edward Colthorpe,
and had two children; Albert Victor, _b._ 2 Jan. 1914; and Grace,
_b._ 30 March, 1912.

=GRAMSHAW, ROBERT WILFRED RALEIGH=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal
Sussex Regt., only _s._ of the Rev. Robert Michael Oginski
Gramshaw, of Fittleworth, Sussex, by his wife Emily, dau. of Dr.
Richard Hughes, of Brighton; _b._ Enfield, Middlesex, 18 Dec.
1890; educ. at St. Cyprian's, Eastbourne (1901-4), Charterhouse
(1904-9), and at Exeter College, Oxford (1909-13). He gained a
classical scholarship at Harrow in March, 1904, which he refused, and
a junior classical scholarship at Charterhouse in June of the same
year, which he accepted. On the expiration of his junior scholarship he
gained a senior scholarship at the same school, and in 1909, his last
year there, won the Thackeray and Elder prizes, a leaving exhibition,
and the Talbot Medal and Exhibition. In the same year he gained an
open classical scholarship at Exeter College, Oxford, being the senior
scholar of his year. He read Honour Moderations and Literae Humaniores,
obtaining a second class in both schools, and took his B.A. degree in
1913. He took a keen interest in rowing, and was spare man for both his
College Torpid and Eight, only doctor's orders forbidding him an actual
place in the boat. He had intended to take Holy Orders, and had been
awarded a Liddon Studentship, but on the outbreak of war, was offered
and accepted a commission in the 3rd Royal Sussex Regt., 15 Aug. 1914.
He left for France on 1 Jan. 1915, where he was attached to the 2nd
Battn. of the Regt., and was seriously wounded when leading his platoon
in an attack on the German trenches at La Bassée on the evening of the
25 Jan. 1915, and died in hospital two days later; _unm._ Buried
in Béthune Cemetery. His Commanding Officer wrote: "He died a soldier's
death of wounds received in a very brilliant little operation, by
which our brigade recaptured some important ground which had been lost
earlier in the day."

 [Illustration: =Robert W. R. Gramshaw.=]

=GRANGER, JOHN ROBERT CLIFFORD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2563), 208749,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.

=GRANT, DUNCAN=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Queen's Own Cameron
Highlanders, eldest _s._ of Archibald Grant, by his wife, Anne
(Nevis Cottages, Fort William), dau. of Angus McMillan; _b._ Fort
William, Inverness, 8 July, 1880; educ. Fort William Public School,
afterwards being in the service of the Scottish Meteorological Society
at their Ben Nevis Station. He joined the Camerons in Nov. 1899, and
was posted to the 2nd Battn. at Gibraltar, leaving there with a draft
for the 1st Battn. in South Africa, and served through that campaign,
1899-1902, and received the Queen's medal with five clasps (Cape
Colony, Orange River Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, 1902). On
the conclusion of the Sout

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