Ogilvie Graham

Ogilvie Blair Graham, DSO, OBE, TD (8 July 1891 – 30 May 1971) was an Irish first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

During the Second World War he commanded the RA defences in Northern Ireland and was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire.

[1] While at Trinity, he was a member of the Oxford University Officers' Training Corps contingent, and was promoted to second lieutenant in that unit on 28 February 1912.

[17][18] Graham was appointed a major of the 188th (Antrim) Heavy Battery of the Royal Artillery (RA) in the TA on 5 May 1937, from the reserve list of officers.

[19] Throughout the Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, Graham commanded the Fixed Defences (Royal Artillery garrisons in fortifications) of Northern Ireland.

[18] Graham relinquished his TA commission on 5 June 1940 and was transferred to the regular army Royal Regiment of Artillery on the same date.

[28] Graham married Winifred Maud Hurford MBE in 1919, an administrator in Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps whom he met at the Battle of the Somme while serving on the Western Front.

[30] Graham also served as a senior managing director of the family-run York Street Flax Spinning Mill in the Lagan Valley.