Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Kensington And Chelsea
Town
Chelsea
County
Greater London
Country
England
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
92950

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Current location

In the Frontier Forces' Chapel/Sanctum
St Luke's and Christ Church
Sydney Street
Chelsea
Kensington And Chelsea
Greater London
SW3 6NH
England

OS Grid Ref: TQ 27188 78326
Denomination: Church of England

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Description
Rectangular brass plaque, with a single line border, and a triangular feature at top-centre containing the Regimental badge. The incised inscription is in black lettering.
Inscription
3RD QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S OWN GURKHA RIFLES/ IN MEMORY OF/ THE UNDERMENTIONED OFFICERS OF THE REGIMENT WHO/ DIED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914- 1918/ (NAMES)
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Bagot- Chester, Walter Greville
Bald, Alen
Bennett, Harold
Brackspear, William Rae
Burrows, P E
Drummond, Eric Grey
French, William Cotton
Grey- Smith, Melville
Grigg, Harry Hastings
Hutchinson, John Cayley
See details for all 23 names
Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 23
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 23
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: Regiment, rank, forenames, surnames, decorations
    Order of information: In descending order of rank
Components
  • Plaque
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Brass
Listing information
Condition
History
The War Memorials Trust's record of this plaque is WMO 183406. It includes a comment, dated 3/10/2016, that St Luke's Parish had submitted a case to the Diocesan Advisory Committee for the 3rd Gurkha Rifles memorials to be transferred to the Gurkha Museum. The Gurkha Brigade Association had submitted an application to the War Memorials Trust for a grant to assist with the transfer of the 3rd Gurkha Regiment Gates, Memorials and Tablets to the Brigade of Gurkhas' Visitors centre, at Sir John Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe. (IWM is currently unaware of whether that transfer has yet occurred)./ After the Partition of India in August 1947 the Frontier Force units were divided between the Indian and Pakistan Armies. It was then decided that the memorials to the Punjab Frontier Force, '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. (Most of the memorials in the Frontier Force Chapel at St Luke's Church were donated to the National Army Museum in 1998. However, this did not include memorials re the 3rd Gurkha Rifles, which were left in situ at St Luke's).
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • The War Memorials Trust's reference for this plaque is WMO 183406, see www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/183406/
  • Of the 23 officers commemorated on this plaque, 22 are also named on a separate memorial that now hangs in the Gurkha Museum at Winchester (see our reference 92943).

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