National Army Museum

plaque, commemorative, plaque, commemorative

Accession Number

NAM.1998-10-101-1

Description

Commemorative plaque in memory of officers of the Punjab Frontier Force who died on the Frontier; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial; Wall S9; 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.

Units

5th Gurkha Regiment or Hazara Gurkha Battalion

Punjab Frontier Force

1st Regiment of Infantry Punjab Frontier Force, (1865 - 1901)

2nd (or Hill) Regiment of Sikh Infantry Punjab Frontier Force

3rd Sikh Infantry

4th Regiment of Infantry Punjab Frontier Force

6th Regiment of Infantry Punjab Frontier Force

21st Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (Frontier Force), (1903 - 1904)

54th Sikhs (Frontier Force)

57th Wilde’s Rifles (Frontier Force)

People

Arthur Robertson BROWNING, (1860-1901)

Arthur Cautley BUNNY, (1850-1897)

Christopher Clemons CASSIDY, (1864-1897)

John Cook VC, (1843 - 1879)

George Field ARCHIBALD, (1883-1908)

Charles Ffolliott Powell, (-1878)

Legh Richmond Battye, (1845-1888)

Valensa Congreve Tonnochy CB, (1854-1902)

George Edmund White, (1870-)

Browne, J F

Higginson, Archibald James Macaulay

Inscriptions

‘OFFICERS / KILLED ON SERVICE. “CONTINUED.” / 1878. Capt. A.J. KELSO 1st K.M.B Lt. C.F. POWELL 2nd P.I. 1879. Lt. O.D. PENNY 4th P.I. Capt. F. POWELL 5th Goorkhas Maj V.C. COOK. V.C. 5th Goorkhas Lt. C.A. MONTENARO 2nd D.M.B. 1880 Maj. H.F. SHOWERS 1st P.I. 1888 Lt. E.J.B. VAUGHAN 6th P.I. Capt. H.B. URMISTON 6th P.I. Maj. L.R. BATTYE 5th Goorkhas 1892 Maj. A. DANIEL 1st P.I. 1895 Capt. A. LIMOND 6th P.I. 1897 Lt-Col. A.C. BUNNY 1st S.I. Surg. Capt C.C. CASSIDY 1st S.I. Lt. A.J.M. HIGGINSON 1st S.I. Capt J.F. BROWNE 1st K.M.B. 1899 Capt H.C. SANDFORD 1st P.I. 1901 Maj A.R. BROWNING 4th P.I. 1902 Col V.C. TONNOCHY 3rd S.I. Capt G.E. WHITE “ Capt C.P. DOWNE 1st P.I. 1903 Capt C.H. VASEY 2nd S.I. 1908 Lt. G.H. SOOLE 21st Cavalry Lt. W. YOUNGE attd. 54th Sikhs Lt. G.F. ARCHIBALD 57th Rifles 1910 Capt H.D. STIRLING, DSO 57th Rifles 1914-1918 / The Great War / The names of those who fell / then are inscribed on / separate TABLETS.’