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Hello all,
Is it normal for an officer killed in action not to receive the QSA or any other medal??
Thank You,
Doug

Hi

Definitively not!

Rank, name and unit of the officer?

Henk

Henk,
Lt. Charles N.A.Graham
Northumberland Fusileers
Mounted infantry Co.
Thank You
Doug

Doug,
Medal and clasps verified in WO100/169 pages 257 and 281!
Regards Frank

Doug,

He sounded quite a man:

He died October 13th, 1901, at Middelburg, Transvaal, of wounds received in action near Koornfontein, August 28th, 1901. He was the only son of Major General F W Graham, 12 Ashburn Place, South Kensington, and Mrs Graham, of Charlecombe, Camberley, Surrey. He was born in September 1879 and educated at Cheam, Eton and Oxford. At Eton he was an enthusiastic volunteer, and a 2nd Lieutenant in the School Corps. He entered the Northumberland Fusiliers from the 5th Battalion Rifle Brigade March 1900, being promoted Lieutenant the following August. Soon after joining the Northumberland Fusiliers he was appointed assistant adjutant to his battalion. In February 1901, a mounted infantry company was formed for service. Lieutenant Graham joined it, and proceeding to South Africa, served with it till his death. Whilst being carried from the field wounded and under a heavy fire, he heard a shout "another man hit". In terrible pain and weak, he directed his bearers to leave him and look after the other wounded man", his one thought," his commanding officer writes, "was always for others".

Regards
David

Charles Noel Andrews Graham MI 3rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
A great name too!