‘Boy’ Stamberg reminiscences of the North West Frontier 1929-34

Major Arthur Stamberg, known as ‘Boy’ in the Regiment, read modern languages at Exeter College, Oxford, before serving with the 1st Battalion in Dehra Dun and on the North West Frontier from 1929-1934. He contracted a debilitating illness and resigned his commission in 1935. He subsequently became a Clerk, and later Chief Clerk, at Buckingham Palace, serving four successive monarchs and being awarded the LVO in 1958. He was a fluent French and German speaker and during the Second World War was employed on intelligence duties in the UK, Egypt and Mauritius. He retired from royal service in 1961 and worked in the Aliens Office in Jersey. His autobiography, ‘Footsteps on a Winding Road’ was published in 1998. He died in 2001.

The article below with his reminiscences of life on the North West Frontier appeared in ‘The Sirmooree’ in Summer 1998.

Stamberg article