Graham, Harry ~ Ballads of the Boer War, by "Coldstreamer" ~ (London, 2nd edition, November 1902) 16mo, original buckram, pp. (ii) + 104. Spine darkened and a little chipped at head and tail, hinges a little weakened, endpapers lightly foxed. (R.G. Hackett, South African War books, p. 137. The first edition ran to 89 pages.) Boer War verse. GBP20

also by the author "'Ruthless rhymes for heartless homes' etc"

(1874-1936) was an English writer of humorous verse in a tradition of grotesquerie and black humor.Some of the funniest (and also most horrifying) little verses were written by a person who signed himself Col. D. Streamer. His real name was Harry Graham; he took his pen-name from a regiment to which he belonged: the Coldstream Guards.


often compared with Hilaire Belloc, Ogden Nash and Dorothy Parker — masters of light verse — but his humour is blacker and his talent for the final, telling rhyme was greater than that of his contemporaries and rivals.

Full Name: Jocelyn Henry Clive Graham
AKA: Harry J.C. Graham, Harry Graham, and Col. D. Streamer ("pen name")
Birth Year: 1874
Death Year: 1936
Birthplace: England
Married: Dorothy Villiers, 1910
Children: Virginia Thesiger

Was a captain in the Coldstream Guards from which he took his pseudonym, "Col D Streamer".

From the Canadian Archival Information Network:

"Captain Harry J.C. Graham, 1874-1936, was born in England. He was educated at Eton and Sandhurst, and served in the Coldstream Guards. From 1898 to 1901 he was aide-de-camp to Lord Minto, who was Governor-General of Canada from 1989 to 1904. He accompanied Lord Minto on a trip across Canada to the Klondike gold rush in the Yukon, July 19-October 13, 1900. He kept a journal of the trip, which was later presented to Lord and Lady Minto. On his return to Britain he became a journalist and author of popular fiction. In 1910 he married Dorothy Villiers, and they had at least one child, Virginia (Thesiger)."