Home  / FDA-A.718-2018

FDA-A.718-2018

Parts

Object number

FDA-A.718-2018

Object type

Identification

Title

Charles Noel Andrews Graham

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Brass plaque with relief design, including badge and crossed flags and trees.

Description

Content (description)

Relief design, including badge and crossed flags

Content (note)

This is a memorial to Lieutenant Charles Noel Andrews Graham of the Northumberland Fusiliers (the cap badge of the Fusiliers is included in the deign). He died from a gunshot wound at Middleburg, Transvaal, South Africa, during the Boer War. Graham had served as an officer in the Volunteers and Militia, as well as in the Regulars. In 1897 he became a second lieutenant in the Eton College Corps (4th V. B. Oxfordshire Light Infantry). In April 1898 he passed into the Queen's Own Royal Tower Hamlets Militia (5th Battalion Rifle Bridgade). In March 1900 he was appointed a second lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers, becoming lieutenant in August of the same year.

Inscription

Cap badge of the Northumberland Fusiliers includes the lettering 'Quo Fata Vocant'.

Production

Person

Unknown (Artist)

Date

1901

History and association

References

• Lack, W., Stuchfield, H. Martin and Whittemore, P., The Monumental Brasses of Buckinghamshire, London: Monumental Brass Society, 1994 (p. 90, no. CC)
image 144051
Further information and resources

Can't find what you are looking for?

Digital resources

Terms and conditions

     
Powered by CollectionsIndex+ Collections Online