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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Lee-Graham Louis Pippin
|Army number=174490
|Rank=2/Lt
|Date of birth=8/12/1914
|Age=75 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry - granted an Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt 22/2/1941.  Posted 11th Battalion DLI.  Served Iceland. Special Employment 6/4/1942 and struck off strength of 11th Battalion DLI.  Special Operations Exexutive Mission to France 1943.  Taken Prisoner of War.  Relinquished Commission on the grounds of disability 9/7/1946 as Honorary Captain (date subsequently amended to 5/8/1946).
|Task or role=Duty Officer.
|Joined Brigade=Probably shortly after being Commissioned.  Exact date of posting to 11th Bn not known as the Field Returns of Officers appear not to have survived for the relevant period.
|Promotions=W/S Lt 22/8/1942, A/Captain 16/3/1943, T/Captain 16/6/1943.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known, but may well have been tortured after capture.
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured while on a mission in France.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 3/8/1990.
|Home address=Married Marguerite D M (Daisy) Robinson (born 1916) at Marylebone in 1942.  Lived in Hammersmith in 1946 and 1948.
|Source table=11DLI
}}

Lt Lee-Graham's "Special Employment" was as an Agent with the Special Operations Executive.  In a book detailing the casualties to SoE Agents he is referred to in a section regarding an Agent called [http://www.seychellesweekly.com/July%2025,%202010/top6_a_seychellois.html Jumeau].  This can be found [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0AYUnMVf59YC&pg=RA2-PT2&lpg=RA2-PT2&dq=Louis+Lee-Graham+Prisoner+of+War&source=bl&ots=8ZH-cJO0NX&sig=8cPA8rIGMt0y2C9RJoipYNW511A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qEXbU9CvMtKX0QWay4DQCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Louis%20Lee-Graham%20Prisoner%20of%20War&f=false here]

Lt Lee-Graham is also listed in a book about Wanborough Manor - an SoE Training and Selection Centre.  Reference to this can be found [http://www.johnowensmith.co.uk/books/Wanborough.htm#app4 here]  He is listed in the Appendix detailing surviving Agents.

To access a Website specialising in SoE Agents and their histories please click [http://soe_french.tripod.com/ here]

For a Wikipedia article on SoE Training Establishments please click [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SOE_establishments here]

Particular thanks are due to David M Harrison for access to a copy of Captain Lee-Graham's post-repatriation report in 1945, from National Archives file HS6/437, and for a copy of the Battalion Part II Order (the only such page to have come my way in years of 70th Brigade research) from his personal file at the National Archives - HS9/607/1 - which shows him struck off the Battalion strength.