plaque, commemorative, plaque, commemorative
Accession Number
NAM.1998-10-45-1
Description
Commemorative plaque in memory of 2nd Lieutenant C R MacNamara Indian Army Reserve of Officers attached to Queen Victoria’s own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) who died on the Boner (?) Frontier 17th August 1915; 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.
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