NAM.1998-10-43-1

Commemorative plaque in remembrance of Major Robert George Anthony Trail, Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides Frontier Force who died at Eppey near Cambrai, France on the 1st Dec 1917, while attached to the Jodhpur Lancers; 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.

World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)