Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1940 - c 1965 (Creation)
- 1917 - 1919 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 box
Scope and content
Diaries relating to service in World War One and World War Two, and other items, 1941-1960, relating to his World War Two career, notably: diaries, 1917-1919, chiefly relating to his service with 2 Life Guards on the Western Front, 1917-1918; diary, 1940, covering service as Adjutant, Household Cavalry Composite Regiment, Palestine, and as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, British Troops in Egypt, Aug-Dec 1940; diaries, 1943-1945, relating to service as Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Eighth Army, 1943, and as Major General Administration (MGA), 21 Army Group, 1944-1945. Also account of the capture of Giarabub, Libya, 1941; account of the capture of Sicily, 1943; printed messages from Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery to 8 Army, 1942-1944; issues of Eighth Army News, 1942-1943; photographs of Graham and colleagues, c 1943 – c 1965; maps of North West Europe, 1945.
System of arrangement
The collection has been catalogued chronologically.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1895; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; Commissioned, 2 Life Guards, 1914; served on Western Front, World War One, 1914-1918; awarded MC; Capt, Regular Army Reserve of Officers (RARO), 1919; ran steel business Graham & Bohn, 1920s-1930s; rejoined Life Guards as Captain, 1939; Staff Officer, 1 Cavalry Division Headquarters, Palestine, 1940; served in Quartermaster Branch, 8 Army; awarded military OBE, 1942; Deputy Adjutant and Quarter Master General (DAQMG), 8 Army, 1942-1943; with Brig Sir Brian Robertson co-developed the concept of a Field Maintenance Centre for the swift supply of mobile operations; Brigadier and Chief Administrative Officer, 8 Army, 1943; Major General Administration (MGA), 21 Army Group, 1944; knighted, 1945; retired from Army, 1947; Director, Times Publishing Company, 1946-1962; Chairman of electronics company A C Cossor Ltd, 1947-1968; Chairman of betting mechanisation company Totalisators Ltd, 1947-1973; Chairman and Honorary President of the Grayhound Racing Association; died, 1976.
Repository
Archival history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 2019 and 2024.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
Script of material
Existence and location of originals
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Place access points
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Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.