Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Reginald Noble Graham, 3rd Baronet, was a British businessman, army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Reginald Graham received the award "for most conspicuous bravery, coolness and resource when in command of a Machine Gun Section" during the Samarra offensive in 1917, during the First World War.
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Reginald Graham was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Reginald Graham was awarded the Victoria Cross for his subsequent actions that night:.
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Reginald Graham accompanied his guns across open ground, under very heavy rifle and machine gun fire, and when his men became casualties, he assisted in carrying the ammunition.
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Reginald Graham then brought a Lewis gun into action with excellent effect till all the ammunition was expended.
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Reginald Graham was again severely wounded, and forced through loss of blood to retire.
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Reginald Graham later worked in India in branches of the family firm, William Reginald Graham and Company, founded by his great-great-grandfather in Glasgow.
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In 1920 Reginald Graham married Rachel Sprot, daughter of Sir Alexander Sprot, 1st Baronet.
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Reginald Graham succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1936.
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Reginald Graham was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1946 New Year Honours, and awarded King Haakon VII's Cross of Liberty in 1949.
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From 1959 to 1979 Reginald Graham was Usher of the Green Rod to the Order of the Thistle, and participated in many state occasions including the unveiling of a memorial to King George VI in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh in 1962.
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Reginald Graham's medals are held by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum in Stirling Castle on loan from the family.