After an initial amount of bullying by Meynell of Connolly[citation needed] the two became firm friends as described in Enemies of Promise.
[2] Meynell was thirty-one years old, and a captain in the 5th Battalion (Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides), 12th Frontier Force Regiment during the 1935 Mohmand Campaign in British India.
In the hand-to-hand struggle which ensued, Meynell was mortally wounded, but the heavy casualties inflicted on the enemy prevented them from exploiting their success.
[3] His body is laid to rest at the Guides Chapel in Mardan, near Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province (of what is now Pakistan), where he and his wife were married.
[citation needed] Three months after he was killed, news of the award of the VC arrived at Meynell Langley on 24 December 1935.