MAJOR-GENERAL GRAHAM.
Major-General Graham played a distinguished part in the Egyptian campaign. He was selected by Lord Wolseley to command the troops which pushed on in advance after the landing at Ismailia. He met and defeated the enemy at Tel-el-Mahuta ; and he was in command at the most serious operation of the war, when Arabi Pasha endeavoured to overwhelm the brigade at the advanced post of the Kassassin lock. The enemy had a strength of ten to one as against the British troops. The fight.commenced at 4 o'clock, and was decided at dark by a general advance ordered by General Graham, the enemy flying before this attack, and their hope of success in the war vanishing also. At Tel-el-Ivebir General Graham commanded the light infantry brigade, and these troops were first under fire, and are supposed to have been first in the works. Lord Wolseley in his dispatches specially mentioned the brilliant services of the Major-Gen-eral.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2357, 18 March 1884, Page 3
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