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Commemorative plaque in memory of Brigadier General George Benjamin Hodson, CB, DSO, late of Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides Frontier Force, who died on the 25 Jan 1916 at Malta of wounds received at Gallipoli on the 14 Dec 1915; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial; Wall S2; after the Partition of India in August 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.

World War One, Gallipoli (1915-1916)