NAM.1998-10-77-1

Commemorative plaque in memory of Lt Col Frederick Drummond Battye, 2nd in Command of Infantry and Commandant of Queen's Own Corps of Guides who was killed while conducting with the utmost gallantry and skill a retirement of the Infantry of the Guides before very superior numbers of the enemy near Sado on the Panjkora River on April 13th 1895; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial; Wall S5; 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.