NAM.1998-10-76-1

Commemorative plaque in memory of Quintin and Wigram, sons of the late George Wynyard Battye, Bengal Civil Service who fell fighting for their country. Quinton, 2nd in command of the Corps of Guides was mortally wounded before Delhi on 9th June 1857 and died the following day, aged 26. Wigram who was killed while leading the Guides Cavalry at Fattenhabad in Afghanistan on 2nd April 1879, aged 37; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial; Wall S5; after the Partition of India in Aug 1947 the Frontier Force units were divided between the Indian and Pakistan Armies; it was then decided that the memorials to the Piffers erected in the garrison churches should be relocated to England, and in 1951 they were installed in the Parish Church of St Luke’s, Chelsea.

2nd Afghan War (1878-1880)

Delhi, Siege of, 1857 (Indian Mutiny 1857-1859)