SERVICE PERSON RESEARCH
SERVICE PERSON DETAILS
Service Person’s
Name
Rank
Service Number
Regiment/Unit or
Ship or Squadron
Dugald (Douglas) Maxwell Lockwood Graham
Major (Captain on enlistment)
Not known
2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment, C Squadron, 1st Light Horse Brigade
Date of Birth
8 February 1873
Place of Birth
Calliope Station, Queensland
Family Details
Single
Mother - Georgina Eliza Graham, The Hermitage, Toowoomba
Father - John Lockwood of Calliope Station, Queensland
Age at Enlistment
Place of Enlistment
41
Brisbane
Date of Death
13 May 1915 (possibly 14 May)
Place of Death
Quinn’s Post, Gallipoli.
Cemetery or
Memorial Name
Grave or Memorial
Number
Quinn’s Post Cemetery, Gallipoli.
Grave Reference: A. 31
PHOTO:
Source: State Library of Queensland image http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/73171 (Accessed 4th March, 2015)
SERVICE PERSON’S STORY/EULOGY:
Prepared by Carmel Harman
Major Dugald (Douglas) Maxwell Lockwood Graham, the eldest of seven children, was born on 8 February 1873
at Calliope Station, Queensland. His father was John Lockwood Graham of Scotland and his mother was
Georgina Eliza Graham of Ireland. The family were Church of England and Major Graham was educated at
Toowoomba Grammar School before becoming a banker and sugar cane farmer in Ayr, North Queensland.
Major Graham was a member of the Queensland Rifles in 1898 and saw action in the South African Boer War
from 1900 to 1901 as a Lieutenant in the 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen. He was in the 14th Australian Light
Horse from 1902 to 1904 and in the 15th Australian Light Horse and the 27th Australian Light Horse in 1908.
When war broke out in 1914, Major Graham was 41 years old and single and signed up for the war effort. He
was a Captain and embarked from Brisbane on 24 August, 1914 with the 2nd Light Horse Regiment, C Squadron,
1st Light Horse Brigade. He sailed to Egypt on HMAT Star of England A15. By 3 October, he had achieved the rank
of Major.
Major Graham saw action on the Gallipoli Peninsula and was killed on 13 or 14 May, 1915 at Quinn’s Post. His
record simply says ‘Killed in Action – Bullet Wounds’. He was 42 years old. He was buried at Pope’s Hill
Cemetery, on 19 May 1915 and later reburied at Quinn’s Post, Gallipoli, 5/8 mile north-east of Anzac Cove. As
his father had died in 1916, his mother, as his next-of-kin, received his belongings after the war was over. These
items included a plaque, scroll and medallion as well as his medals – the Star Medal, British War Medal and the
Victory Medal.
Major Dugald (Douglas) Maxwell Lockwood Graham is commemorated in a book entitled, “Heroes All: Central
Queenslanders who Gave Their Lives Serving the Empire at Gallipoli” by Bronwyn Tarrier. He had had a long and
distinguished career. Lest We Forget.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Australian War Memorial, Roll of Honour, Major Dugald Maxwell Lockwood Graham, Panel 3
https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1729329/ (Accessed 2 March, 2015)
Brisbane Courier Mail 1920, “Captain Dugald Maxwell Lockwood Graham”, 1 January, p.9
http://alh-research.tripod.com/next_of_kin_wanted/index.album/captain-dugald-maxwell-lockwoodgraham?i=7&s=1 (Accessed 3 March, 2105)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Dugald Maxwell Lockwood Graham http://www.cwgc.org/find-wardead/casualty/604534/GRAHAM,%20DUGALD%20MAXWELL%20LOCKWOOD (Accessed 1 March, 2015)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Quinn’s Post Cemetery, http://www.cwgc.org/findcemetery/cemetery/66601/QUINN'S%20POST%20CEMETERY,%20ANZAC (Accessed 1 March, 2015)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Archive Online, Graves Registration Reports
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/604534/GRAHAM,%20DUGALD%20MAXWELL%20LOCKWOOD
(Accessed 3 March, 2015)
Courier 1915, Photograph of Captain Dugald Maxwell Lockwood Graham, 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment,
1915, Brisbane Courier, 1 January, p. 9
Graham, Dugald Maxwell Lockwood - The Spirits of Gallipoli
http://www.spirits-of-gallipoli.com/families/files/GRAHAM-DML-Gen.pdf (Accessed 3 March 2015)
National Archives of Australia NAA: B2455, GRAHAM, DML
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Gallery151/dist/JGalleryViewer.aspx?B=4669273&S=1&N=66#
/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ShowImage.aspx?B=4669273&T=P&S=12 (Accessed 4 March 2015)
RSL Virtual War Memorial 2015, Dugald Maxwell Lockwood Graham
http://www.rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/explore/people/125998 (Accessed 28 February 2015)
State Library of Queensland 2015, Photograph of Major Dugald Maxwell Lockwood Graham, State Library of
Queensland image - http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/73171 (Accessed 4 March, 2015)
Tarrier, B., 2005, Central Queensland – Central Queenslanders who gave their lives serving the Empire at
Gallipoli, Rockhampton, Queensland, cover page, pp. 114 -115.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/31373458?q&versionId=45001463 (Accessed 3 March, 2105)
The AIF Project, Dugald Maxwell Lockwood Graham
https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=115968&printFormat=cert (Accessed 28 February, 2015)
Tripod 2015, Photograph of Lieutenant Dugald Maxwell Lockwood Graham, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushman,
Boer War, South Africa,
http://alhresearch.tripod.com/next_of_kin_wanted/thumbnails/400x300/ql26091914p23_2ndLH_Offic_GRAHA
M_DML_1qaa1.jpg (Accessed 3 March, 2015)
Trove 2015, Photograph of Major Dugald Maxwell Lockwood Graham, “The Roll of Honour, Queensland”, 1915,
The Queenslander, Brisbane, Saturday, 5th May, p. 24 Trove Digitised Newspapers,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/22297779/2525683?zoomLevel=3 (Accessed 3 March, 2015)
Trove 2015, “The Roll of Honour, Queensland”, 1915, The Queenslander, Brisbane, Saturday, 5th May, p. 24 Trove
Digitised Newspapers, http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/22297779/2525683?zoomLevel=3
(Accessed 28 February, 2015)