Surname:	Graham
Forename(s):	Henry Robert Balfour
Rank:	Private
Service number:	2765894
Regiment:	1st Bn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
Date of death:	2 September 1944 Aged 21
Place of death:	Italy
Buried Commemorated	Florence War Cemetery Coll. grave II. C. 1. Kingussie War Memorial

Background

Henry’s birth was registered in 1923 at Scoonie, Fife

He was son of retired army Captain Manners Hamilton Nisbet Graham and Ruth Graham a widow, formerly Baird, (m.s. Wilson).  His parents were married on 21 October 1921 in Arbroath. His father’s home address was Levenbank, Leven, Fife and his mother of Kirkland House, Arbroath. He was the grandson of Lt Col and Mrs Balfour Graham of Leven.

Henry’s father, Manners, formerly a Captain in the 7th Bat. Black Watch, died on 18 January 1938 at Tor-na-Dee, Murtle. Tor-na Dee was a sanatorium specialising in the care of those with tuberculosis. Henry’s father’s usual address, at the time of his death, was given as Tighnabruach, Kingussie. His death registration suggests that he had been ill for 20 years and so probably since his service in the First World War.

War Record

Henry died in Italy on 2 September 1944. He may have died in the Allied Offensive on the Gothic Line. His body was exhumed from a temporary grave and re-interred on 2 February 1945 in a multiple grave with five other Argylls in the Florence War Cemetery.

His grave has the inscription chosen by the family.

DEARLY BELOVED SON

OF CAPT. MANNERS H. N. GRAHAM

AND MRS RUTH GRAHAM.

 KINGUSSIE, SCOTLAND