National Army Museum

plaque, commemorative, plaque, commemorative

Accession Number

NAM.1998-10-69-1

Description

Commemorative plaque in the memory of the listed officers of Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) killed in World War One 1914-1919; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial; Wall S4; 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, Egypt and Palestine (1914-1918), World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918), World War One, East Africa (1914-1918), World War One, Gallipoli (1915-1916)

Events

Neuve Chapelle, Battle of, 1915 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)

Units

Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) (Lumsden’s) Cavalry

15th Lancers (Cureton’s Multanis), (1903 - 1922)

38th King George’s Own Central India Horse

Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) (Lumsden’s Infantry)

57th Wilde’s Rifles (Frontier Force)

59th Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force)

3rd Queen Alexandra’s Own Gurkha Rifles

8th Gurkha Rifles, 1st Battalion, (1907-1947)

Indian Army Staff

King’s African Rifles

People

Duncan Alexander CAMERON MC, (1893 - 1917)

Bertram Robert GRAHAM, (1874-1916)

George Benjamin HODSON, (1863-1916)

Philip HOWELL, (1877-1916)

John Victor Cortlandt ANDERSON, (1887-1918)

Andrew Brooks KNOWLES, (-1916)

Robert Louis Irving ARNOTT, (-1918)

Percy d'Aguilar Banks, (1885 - 1915)

Francis Bernard Roseveare, (-1917)

Robert George Antony TRAIL, (1879-1917)

W F Jackson

Browne, C B

Cave Penny, Evelyn Anthony

Guy Doncaster, (-1918)

Percy Clare Eliot Lockhart DSO, (-1915)

Robert Prothero Hankinson, (-1917)

MacNamara, C R

Neave, A L W

Nelson, Ernest Bertram

Nott-Bower, Charles Cecil

Scarth, Allan Edward

Stewart, J C

Inscriptions

‘Sacred to the memory of / the following officers of / Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (FRONTIER FORCE) / killed in the Great War / 1914-1919. [1st column] Brig-Genl P. HOWELL. C.M.G. Killed at Authuille, France on 7th October 1916 / while Brig-GenL. General Staff 11th Corps. Brig-Genl G.B. HODSON, C.B. D.S.O. died at Malta on 25th January 1916. / of wounds received in Gallipoli on 14th December 1915. / while in command of the 33rd Infantry Brigade. Lt.Col. P.C. ELIOT LOCKHART. D.S.O. killed at Neuve Chapelle France / on 13th March 1915 while in command of the 59th / Scinde Rifles (FRONTIER FORCE) Lt.COl. B.R. GRAHAM killed at Latema Hill near Tabeta, East Africa, / on 11th March 1916 while in command of the 3rd Bn / King's African Rifles. Major. R.G.A. TRAIL killed at Eppey near Cambrai, France, on / 1st December 1917 whilst serving with the Jodhpur Lancers. Capt. C.B. BROWNE killed near Rouge Croix France on 11th April 1915. / while serving with the 15th Lancers Cureton's Multanis. Capt. P.d'A. BANKS killed near Ypres, Flanders, on 26th April 1915. / while serving with 57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force) Capt. J.V.C. ANDERSON killed in the ValLey Of Sharon, Palestine / on 8th June 1918. Capt D.A. CAMERON. M.C. killed at Eppey, near Cambrai, France on / 1st December 1917 while serving with the 38th / King George's Own Central India Horse. Capt A.L.W. NEAVE killed at the Valley Of Sharon, Palestine, / on 19th September 1918. A/Capt G. DONCASTER I.A.R.O. killed in the Valley Of Sharon, / Palestine, on 8th June 1918.’ [2nd column] ‘A/Capt. A.E. SCARTH. I.A.R.O. died on 22nd April 1917 of wounds received / at Istanbulat, Mesopotamia, while serving with the 53rd / Sikhs (Frontier Force) Lieut. R.P. HANKINSON. I.A.R.O. killed at Sannayat, Mesopo- / tamia, on 23rd February 1917 while serving with / the 56th Punjab Rifles (Frontier Force) Lieut. F.B. ROSEVEARE, attd. died on 5th November 1917 of wounds / received at Takrit, Mesopotamia, while serving with the / 59th Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force) Lieut. E.A. CAVE PENNY, attd. killed in the Valley Of Sharon, / Palestine, on 8th June 1918. Lieut. E.B. NELSON. I.A.R.O. killed at Mushaidie, Mesopotamia, on / 14th March 1917, while serving with the 1st Bn / 8th Gurkha Rifles. lieut. j.c. stewart. i.a.r.o. killed at nasereveb, Mesopotamia, on / 14th march 1917, while serving with the 1st bn / 8th Gurkha rifles. Lieut. a.b. knowles. I.A.R.O. killed at Luchomo, East Africa on / 11th June 1916 while serving with the 17th Cavalry. Lieut. C.C. NOTT-BOWER. I.A.R.O. killed near Neuve-Chapelle, / France on 16th May 1915 while serving with the / 2nd Bn 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles. Lieut. W.F. JACKSON I.A.R.O. killed at Hawhish, Mesopotamia, on / 28th October 1918. 2nd Lieut. C.R. MACNAMARA killed at Rustum on the Buner / Frontier on 17th August 1915. 2nd Lieut. R.L.I. ARNOTT, attd, killed in the Valley Of Sharon, / Palestine, on 19th September 1918. Erected by their Brother Officers of the Guides.’