LIEUTENANT GRAHAM DUDLEY DRIVER, Royal Army Service Corps, son of Sheldon Dudley Driver, a member of the Stock Exchange, was born in 1872 and educated at Dover College. He himself became a member in 1894.
An enthusiast in all sports he was especially keen on tennis, lawn tennis and squash racquets. He competed in and won many prizes at lawn tennis tournaments, and was a member of Hurlingham and Queen’s Clubs.
Though over forty when war broke out, he enlisted in September 1914, in the Sportsmen’s Battalion, the 23rd Royal Fusiliers, and in March of the following year received his commission as a Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps.
He died of spotted fever at the age of forty-three, within a few weeks of obtaining his commission, on 5 May 1915.
He married Evelyn, youngest daughter of the late William Blencowe of Brackley, Northants, and left one daughter.
Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918
