National Army Museum

plaque, commemorative, plaque, commemorative

Accession Number

NAM.1998-10-104-1

Description

Commemorative plaque in memory of officers of the Punjab Frontier Force 1865-1907; 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

Bengal Medical Department

1st Regiment of Cavalry Punjab Frontier Force, (1865 - 1890)

2nd Regiment of Cavalry Punjab Frontier Force

3rd Regiment of Cavalry Punjab Frontier Force

5th Punjab Cavalry

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

2nd Regiment of Infantry Punjab Frontier Force

3rd Regiment of Sikh Infantry Punjab Frontier Force

4th Regiment of Infantry Punjab Frontier Force

5th Regiment of Infantry Punjab Frontier Force

54th Sikhs (Frontier Force)

People

William Seton BROWNE, (1866-1893)

Edward William CODRINGTON, (1859-1896)

George DUNCAN, (1856-1904)

John Finnis, (1840-1884)

Gilbert GAISFORD, (1849-1898)

Richard Harman DSO, (1864-1905)

William Frederick HENNELL, (-1879)

James Richard JOHNSON, (1838-1878)

Sotheby Douglas Brodie Ketchen, (1869 - 1901)

Arthur Francis Lambe, (-1885)

Frank Mardall, (-1880)

Murray Hugh Pratt Barlow, (1869 - 1902)

Andrew Scott, (-1882)

Alan Coddington BATTEN, (1856-1900)

Robert Charnley Squire Charles TYTLER, (1843-1865)

Inscriptions

‘OFFICERS / WHO HAVE DIED, / “CONTINUED.” / 1865. / Lt. R.C.S.C. TYTLER 5th P.I. 1878. / Surg. Major J.R. JOHNSON 5th Goorkhas 1879. / Lt. W.F. HENNELL 1st P.C. 1880. / Lt. F. MARDALL 3rd P.C. Lt. PYCROFT 5th P.C. 1882. / Maj A. SCOTT V.C. 4th S.I. 1884. / Maj J. FINNIS 2nd P.I. Maj A. SHEPHERD 4th P.I. 1885. / MAJ A.F. LAMBE 1st S.I. 1886. / Lt. F.L. ANDERSON 3rd P.C. 1887. / Lt.Col. J.H. BROOME 2nd P.C. Lt.Col. C.K. MACKINNON 1st S.I. 1892. / Lt. G.E. TODD 2nd P.C. 1893. / Lt. H.R.M. CURRIE 2nd P.I. Lt. W. SETON-BROWNE 6th P.I. 1895. / Capt A.McI. CAMPBELL 3rd P.C. Lt. H.M. BROWNE 4th S.I. 1896. / Capt E.W. CODRINGTON 3rd S.I. 1898. / Capt C. SCHOFIELD 4th P.I. Lt.Col G. GAISFORD 5th P.I. Lt.Col C.F. GAMBIER 5th P.I. Lt. A.G.S. TAYLOR 5th P.C. 1899. / Capt C.H. DAVIES 5th G.R. 1900. / Lt.Col l A.C. BATTEN 2nd P.C. 1901. / Capt S.D.B. KETCHEN 5th G.R. Capt C.G.F. EDWARDES 5th P.C. 1902. / Lt. J.L. MORANT 3rd P.C. Capt M.H.P. BARLOW 5th G.R 1904. / Lt.Col W. LAMBERT 3rd P.C. Lt.CoL G. DUNCAN IMS 2nd P.I. 1905. / Lt.Col R HARMAN, DSO 4th S.I. 1906. / Col E.W.F. MARTIN 5th GR 1907. / Lt. C. G. BIRD 54th Sikhs’