Frederick Graham (British Army officer)

Major General Frederick Clarence Campbell Graham CB, DSO (14 December 1908 – 9 May 1988) was a senior British Army officer.

Frederick Graham
Born14 December 1908
Died9 May 1988
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
RankMajor General
Commands held61st Lorried Infantry Brigade
51st (Highland) Division
Battles/warsSecond World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order

Military career

Born the son of Sir (John) Frederick Noble Graham, 2nd Baronet and Irene Maud Campbell, Graham was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[1] He commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on 2 February 1929.[2] He served in the Second World War for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.[1]

After the war he became commander of the 61st Lorried Infantry Brigade in January 1951, Assistant Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in August 1953 and Deputy Commander of the Land Forces in Hong Kong in 1956.[1] He went on to be General Officer Commanding 51st (Highland) Division in March 1959 before retiring in March 1962.[3]

He served as Colonel of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from 1958 to 1972[4] and as Lord Lieutenant of Stirling and Falkirk from 1979 to 1983.[5]

Works
  • Graham, Frederick Clarence Campbell (1948), History of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, 1st Battalion (Princess Louise's) 1939–1945, T. Nelson & Sons

Family

In 1936 he married Phyllis Mary MacMahon; they had three sons.[1]

References
  1. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
  2. "No. 33462". The London Gazette. 1 February 1929. p. 772.
  3. "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  4. "Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 30 December 2005. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  5. "No. 20577". The Edinburgh Gazette. 12 October 1979. p. 1139.
Military offices
Preceded by
Edward Colville		 GOC 51st (Highland) Division
1959–1962		 Succeeded by
Derek Lang
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Viscount Younger of Leckie		 Lord Lieutenant of Stirling and Falkirk
1979–1983		 Succeeded by
James Stirling
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