{"id":21321,"date":"2025-12-30T18:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?page_id=21321"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:07:23","slug":"edward-graham","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/second-world-war\/38-irish-brigade-1942-1947\/roll-of-honour-2\/roll-of-honour-sicily-august-1943\/edward-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-86368\">Royal Irish Fusilier Edward Graham\u2019s grave was finally found by his twin sons more than 74 years after he died in a German ambush near Maletto in August 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edwardgraham.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21324\" style=\"width:346px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edwardgraham.png 640w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edwardgraham-249x300.png 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Edward and Sydney Graham attended the rededication ceremony for their father at Catania Commonwealth War Grave (CWGC) cemetery on 4th October 2017. Previously, the grave\u2019s headstone had been engraved with the words \u201cKnown unto God\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"951\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-96.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24060\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.9287219707701344;width:709px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-96.png 951w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-96-279x300.png 279w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-96-768x827.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 951px) 100vw, 951px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The rededication, organised by the MoD\u2019s Joint Compassionate and Casualty Centre, was attended by the Defence Attache at the UK\u2019s Rome Embassy, Lt Col Lindsay MacDuff, and former Commanding Officers of the Royal Irish Rangers, Lt General Sir Phillip Trousdell and Lt Colonel Phillip Baxter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A delegation from the Royal Irish Regiment including its chaplain, Padre Ivan Linton, a piper and a bugler were in attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representatives of the town of Piedimonte Etneo also attending the ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_4110-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86376\" style=\"width:448px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Irish Fusilier Edward Graham\u2019s grave was finally found by his twin sons more than 74 years after he died in a German ambush near Maletto in August 1943. Edward and Sydney Graham attended the rededication ceremony for their father at Catania Commonwealth War Grave (CWGC) cemetery on 4th October 2017. 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