Major-General John Graham - Telegraph Graham was subsequently appointed adjutant but was wounded in March 1945 during the forced crossing of the Rhine. He rejoined the battalion in July in the British Zone in occupied Germany. He was mentioned in despatches. Having taken a regular commission, he went with the 1st Battalion to Palestine as part of the 6th Airborne Division. A secondment to the 5th (Scottish) Battalion of the Parachute Regiment in BAOR was interrupted by the Soviet blockade of Berlin. Graham was sent to the School of Slavonic Studies in London to learn Czech and, having qualified as an interpreter, was attached to the British embassy in Prague for a year before moving to GCHQ in England. The Security Service would not let him serve with his friends in the Argylls in the Korean War, but he rejoined his regiment in late 1952. After postings to British Guiana, HQ Scottish Command, Cyprus and BAOR, he served at HQ Allied Forces Central Europe as military assistant to the C-in-C, a French general. From 1964 to 1966 he commanded the 1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment and, after a spell at Staff College as an instructor, went to RHQ the Parachute Regiment as its Regimental Colonel. After his return from Oman Graham went to India's National Defence College, New Delhi, followed by a Nato staff appointment at HQ AFCENT in the Netherlands. He was promoted to major-general in 1976 on his appointment as GOC Wales. On retirement in 1978, he moved to Kent to take up the post of Administrator of Chevening. There he and his wife looked after a succession of Foreign Secretaries and their guests. In 1991 he bought a house in Barbados and settled there. He was appointed CBE in 1973 and CB in 1978. He published, in 1999, Ponder Anew: Reflections on the Twentieth Century; and, in 2007 (with Humphrey Metzgen), Caribbean Wars Untold: A Salute to the British West Indies. John Graham married, in 1956, Rosemary Adamson, who survives him with their son and daughter. Maj-Gen John Graham, born January 18 1923, died December 14 2012