Graham, R
(1902 - 1918)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
14th January 1902
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1912 - 1915
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
36 Chestnut Road, West Norwood
REGIMENT
Royal Naval Reserve
FINAL RANK:
Midshipman
DATE OF DEATH:
2nd October 1918
AGE AT DEATH:
16
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Plymouth
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Plymouth (Ford Park) Cemetery. Church S. 1. 8.
Midshipman Robert Graham
Born on January 14th 1902, Robert was the younger of two sons of Henry and Florence Graham. Having previously been at St. Felix School in Felixstowe, he joined the College in the early summer of 1912, just a few months after his elder brother, Henry, had also come to Dulwich. Robert was a pupil for just over three years, leaving in the summer of 1915.
In January 1916, within days of his sixteenth birthday, he joined the Royal Navy, and was assigned to H.M.S. Conway; Robert was anxious to see more active service however, and late the following year was accepted as a Midshipman in the Clan Line. In June of 1918 he was serving with the Clan Line when his ship was torpedoed, and he spent six and a half hours in the water before being picked up. Not long afterwards he was allowed to join the Royal Naval Reserve and was posted to H.M.S. Vivid. Later that year he was taking a training course at the Royal Naval Barracks just outside Plymouth when he was taken ill, dying from pneumonia in the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth on October 2nd 1918. His elder brother Henry, a fellow OA, had been killed whilst serving with the Indian Army in Mesopotamia the previous summer.
