NAM.1998-10-110-1

Commemorative plaque in memory of Lt Harry Durham Hammond, Royal Artillery who died at Nowshera, 8 Feb 1898, from a wound in the spine received on 1 Jan 1898 in the Khyber Pass during the Tirah Campaign when he was orderly officer to his uncle Brigadier General Arthur George Hammond; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial Wall S10; he had been baptised at Jabalpur, Bengal on 18 May 1872 and was the son of Henry Albany Hammond and his wife Mildred Louisa; 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. Associated with India, North West Frontier, Tirah Expeditionary Force (1897-1898).

India, North West Frontier, Tirah Expeditionary Force (1897-1898)