National Army Museum

plaque, commemorative, plaque, commemorative

Accession Number

NAM.1998-10-22-1

Description

Commemorative plaque in memory of the 3rd (Royal) Battalion Sikhs 12th Frontier Force Regiment, and listed Officers of the 3rd Sikhs Punjab Frontier Force whose memorials were destroyed by fire in Kohat Church in 1938 and listed officers of 53rd Sikhs Frontier Force who died between 1918-1939; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial; Wall S1; 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.

Campaigns

World War One (1914-1918)

Units

3rd Regiment of Sikh Infantry Punjab Frontier Force

53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force)

12th Frontier Force Regiment, 3rd Battalion, (1922 - 1947)

People

James Ronald Broun, (1873-)

Edward James Nicolls Fasken, (1852-1892)

Clement James Griffiths, (1838-1915)

William Benjamin Aislabie, (1842-)

Sir Charles John Melliss VC KCB KCMG, (1862 - 1936)

Daniel Edward Mocatta, (1861-1936)

Cyril William Prescott, (1880-)

Sir Thomas Edwin Scott KCB CIE DSO, (1867 - 1937)

Charles Edward De Lisle Solbe, (1865-)

Kenneth Norman Swales, (1902-1937)

Francis Heale Taylor, (1866-)

William Oliver Thompson DSO, (1844-)

Valensa Congreve Tonnochy CB, (1854-1902)

George Edmund White, (1870-)

James Hugh Brownlow de La Poer Beresford, (1862-)

Inscriptions

‘3RD (ROYAL) BN 12TH FRONTIER FORCE REGT / TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND TO THE MEMORY OF/ THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS OF/ THE 3RD SIKHS P.F.F. / WHOSE MEMORIALS WERE DESTROYED BY FIRE/ IN KOHAT CHURCH 1938./ LIEUT. COLONEL W.B. AISLABIE./ COLONEL D. MOCATTA. COLONEL C.J. GRIFFITHS. MAJOR C.H. MANNERS-SMITH, VC. CAPTAIN E.J.N. FASKEN. CAPTAIN R.N. DAWSON. COLONEL W.O. THOMPSON, DSO. MAJOR F.H. TAYLOR. COLONEL V.C. TONNOCHY, CB. CAPTAIN G.E. WHITE. CAPTAIN J.R. BROUN. ALSO THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS OF THE 53RD SIKHS FRONTIER FORCE WHO DIED BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS. MAJOR J.H.B BERESFORD. LIEUT. COLONEL H.G. BURTON. MAJOR GENERAL SIR C.J. MELLISS, VC, KCB, KCMG. MAJOR C.W. PRESCOTT. LIEUT. GENERAL SIR T.E. SCOTT, KCB, CIE, DSO. LIEUT. COLONEL C.E. de L. SOLBE. CAPTAIN K.N. SWALES. CAPTAIN C.J. WHITE. LIEUT G.L. SCOTT. THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY A BROTHER OFFICER IN 1951 / C.I.S.’