Photograph from the second of two war diaries of Maj Walter Greville Bagot-Chester (1887-1918), 3rd Queen Alexandra’s Own Gurkha Rifles, covering the period, 19 Oct 1916 to 1 Dec 1917 in Southampton and Palestine and Egypt.
Maj Chester MC was badly wounded at Loos on the Western Front, and then went on to serve in Egypt and Palestine.
He died in March 1918, aged 31, and is recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as being buried at Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel.
Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918) and World War One, India (1914-1918).