NAM.1998-10-92-1

Commemorative plaque in honour of officers of 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles Frontier Force: FM Rt Hon Frederick Sleigh Earl Roberts, VC, KG KP GCB OM GCSI GCIE, Colonel of the Regiment 1904-1914; Major-General Sir John Munro Sym KCB, Colonel of the Regiment 1915-1920; Gen Sir Alfred Gaselee, GCB GCIE, Commandant 2nd Battalion 1892-1896; Lt Gen Sir Alfred Robert Martin, KCB, Colonel of the Regiment 1921-1926; FM Sir Arthur Arnold Barrett, GCB GCSI KCVO, Commandant 1st Battalion 1899-1905; Punjab Frontier Force Memorial; Wall S7; 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.