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  • Toowoomba
  • Queensland, Australia
  • Boonah, Queensland, Australia
  • Son of Barney and Mary Graham
  • Police constable in the Queensland Police Force
  • John GRAHAM was one of thirty Queensland Police Officers killed on active service during the Great War 1914-1918

Military service

  • 9 October 1914, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
  • 1136
  • Private
  • D C M, 1914-1915 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
  • 9th Bn. Australian Infantry
  • Embarked 22 December 1914, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;
    Seriously wounded in action 25 April 1915 (Gallipoli);
    Awarded Distinguished Conduct Medal on 19 August 1916 “for conspicuous gallantry and devotion in action as a stretcher bearer. He worked continuously for four days with less than six hours rest carrying the wounded across the open in spite of heavy artillery fire.”

Death

  • 20 September, Glencourse Wood
  • Died of shrapnel wounds back, in n°10 CCS
  • 25
  • XXIV - C - 18

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