Officers of 3rd Battalion, 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles near Rafa, 1917

Photograph, World War One, Egypt and Palestine (1914-1918), 1917.

Captain Walter Greville Bagot-Chester stands far right. After serving on the Western Front with 2nd/3rd Gurkhas and being wounded at Loos in September 1915, Bagot-Chester was posted to the Suez Canal defences in October 1916. He then joined the 3rd/3rd Gurkhas for the advance on Gaza in October-November 1917, where he was awarded the Military Cross for leading a raid on Outpost Hill.

Bagot-Chester was badly wounded during a Turkish counter-attack at the Battle of Nebi Samwil near Jerusalem on 23 November 1917, but recovered to re-join his unit the following January. Promoted to acting major, on 27 March 1918 he was mortally wounded by shellfire at Hill 1263 near Mughair Ahmed while supervising the consolidation of a recently gained position. He was later buried at Ramleh War Cemetery.

Photograph from the diary of Captain Walter Greville Bagot-Chester (1887-1918), 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles, covering the period, 19 Oct 1916 to 1 Dec 1917 in Palestine and Egypt.