Major General
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Frederick Clarence Campbell Graham (14 December 1908 – 9 May 1988) was a senior
British Army
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officer.
Military career
Born the son of
Sir (John) Frederick Noble Graham, 2nd Baronet and Irene Maud Campbell, Graham was educated at
Eton College
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and the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
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.
[Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.] He commissioned into the
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
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Argyll is of ancient origin, and corresponds to most of the part of the ancient kingdom of ...
on 2 February 1929. He served in the
Second World War
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for which he was appointed a Companion of the
Distinguished Service Order
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.
[
After the war he became commander of the 61st Lorried Infantry Brigade in January 1951, Assistant Commandant of the ]Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
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in August 1953 and Deputy Commander of the Land Forces in Hong Kong in 1956.[ He went on to be General Officer Commanding ]51st (Highland) Division
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in March 1959 before retiring in March 1962.Lord Lieutenant of Stirling and Falkirk This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Stirling and Falkirk. This office replaced the Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire in 1975.
*Edward Younger, 3rd Viscount Younger of Leckie 1975–1979 (previously Lord Lieutenant o ...
from 1979 to 1983.
Works
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Family
In 1936 he married Phyllis Mary MacMahon; they had three sons.[
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References
External links
British Army Officers 1939−1945
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1908 births
1988 deaths
British Army major generals
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders officers
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
People educated at Eton College
Younger sons of baronets
Lord-Lieutenants of Stirling and Falkirk
British Army personnel of World War II