Ralph Neville Graham was born in South Shields to Morpeth-born solicitor, Ralph Watson Graham and his wife, Sarah Ann.

He joined the High School in January, 1904, where his younger brother (John Stanley=graham_js} had been since September, 1902.

Ralph left the school in 1908 at the age of 14, and went on to Denstone private boarding school in Staffordshire, after which he became a law student.

He spent some time in the Territorials, and by 1914 was living in Canada when he signed up with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force.

There is some evidence that he may have returned to Britain and joined the Durham Light Infantry and/or the Royal Horse Artillery.

While fighting, he got buried in a fallen trench at Neuve Chapelle, but he survived the war and eventually lived in Cumberland, where he died at the Brampton War Memorial Hospital on 30-Aug-1944.