Graham A C Captain 1st Grenadier Guards
CAPTAIN ALEXANDER CECIL GRAHAM, Grenadier Guards (S.R.), was the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Graham of Palace Gate, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
During the South African War, he acted first as a War Correspondent and later joined General French’s Scouts, being wounded and captured at Lindley. On his return to England he went on the Stock Exchange and, joining the firm of H. K. Paxton, became a member in 1905.
In September 1914, he joined the Naval Division as Sub- Lieutenant in the “Hood” Battalion, and went with them to Antwerp. In October of the same year, he was promoted Lieutenant- Commander, and appointed Adjutant of his Battalion. He went to Gallipoli, where he was wounded on 2 May 1915.
In December Captain Graham received a commission in the Grenadier Guards as Captain, Special Reserve, and proceeded to the front in April. He was killed at Ginchy on 12 September 1916, when commanding his company during the battle of the Somme.
Captain Graham married in 1904, Dollie, only daughter of the late H. K. Paxton of the Stock Exchange.
Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918