NAM.1998-10-38-1

Commemorative plaque in memory of Capt Percy d'Aguilar Banks, Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides Frontier Force, killed near Ypres on the 26th April 1915 whilst attached for duty to the 57th Wildes Rifles (Frontier Force); erected by the Officers of the Guides; 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.

Ypres, 2nd Battle of, 1915 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)