NAM.1998-10-39-1

Commemorative plaque in memory of Major G H Bretherton DSO, late of the Queen's Own Corps of Guides Frontier Force, drowned while crossing the Brahmaputra on the 25th July 1904 during the Tibet Expedition; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial; Wall S2; 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.

Younghusband Expedition, Tibet (1903-1904)