GRAHAM, John Benjamin
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Royal Flying Corps |
| Born: | Yankalilla, SA, 26 November 1888 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | St. Peters College |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Poole, Unitary Authority, Dorset, England, 19 March 1961, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Hackney St Peter's College Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Royal Flying Corps |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
O.B.E. M.C. A.F.C.
Son of F. M. and A. S. Graham
Second lieutenant in the 6th Battalion Royal Fusiliers in 1915
Capt. J. B. Graham, R.F.C. (a former Yaukalilla resident) had been awarded the Military Cross. He enlisted in Kitchener’s Army as a private, and gaining a lieutenancy, served with the Royal F'usiliers for more than 12 months, being transferred eventually to the Royal Flying Corps.
Major Royal Flying Corps
Group Captain Royal Air Force
BAR TO MILITARY CROSS.
The following is taken from The Times:
-- "The King has been pleased to award a bar to the Military Cross to 2nd Lieut. (temp. Capt.) John Benjamin Graham, Gen. List and R.F.C. He has displayed great skill and courage when leading photographic reconnaissances. On many occasions, although attacked by superior numbers, he, by his courage and determination, has succeeded in completing his reconnaissances." Mr. Graham is a son of the late Mr. F. M. Graham, of Yankalilla, and a grandson of the late Mr. J. B. Graham, who built Graham's Castle at Prospect, and lived there for some years before he took op his permanent residence in England.
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