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Lieutenant Graham is commemorated on three Boer War memorials by name - two at Eton College (in the College Chapel and the School Hall) and the Northumberland Fusiliers memorial, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

For a photograph it would be worth checking the illustrated papers of the time: Illustrated London News, The Sphere, The Graphic etc. They often published portraits of officers killed in action and died of wounds.

Justin

Hi Justin....

Have you looked in "London Illustrated News" or "The Graphic Magazine" of the period as they had many many pictures of officer casualties.....

Mike

I found Private Thackray's family gravestone in my local cemetery (New Wortley Cemetery, Leeds) yesterday, and Google brought me to this forum thread.
The memorial reads:
Also, JAMES ARTHUR, LATE OF THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS, WHO WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED IN ACTION AT KOORNFONTEIN & DIED AT MIDDLEBURG, TRANSVAAL, SEPT. 10TH 1901, AGED 20 YEARS & 9 MONTHS

There are fascinating stories to be found, but those of the common soldiers are rarely recorded.