plaque, commemorative, plaque, commemorative
Accession Number

NAM.1998-10-96-1

Description

Commemorative plaque in memory of Sgn Maj James Richard Johnson, 5th Goorkha Regiment, died of typhus fever 20 May 1878 at Abbottabad, having attended famine stricken poor in Hazara; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial; Wall S8; 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.