Richard Graham

Richard Graham read modern languages at Jesus College, Cambridge before being commissioned into The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own), known throughout the British Army as The Diehards. His career included command on active service of Cockney soldiers whose character and spirit are threads that run through this book.

On retirement, he walked solo for 2,632 miles around the edge of England, starting at Pevensey Bay where William the Conqueror first invaded England. In 2001 he walked in Hilaire Belloc’s footsteps from NE France to Rome, 100 years after the author of The Path to Rome. A Man of Kent by birth, he has lived in Guernsey since his retirement, serving fourteen years as Secretary/ ADC to the Lieutenant-Governor and one term as a States Deputy.

He is the author of At Their Majesties’ Service, a history of Guernsey’s relationship with the English Crown, and contributes satirical, mildly-mischievous parliamentary sketches to the Guernsey Press. He and his wife Ruby live where she was born, alongside Le Guet at Albecq.