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Honourable Artillery Company

Categories: Armed Forces

London unit about which IanVisits writes "oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior in the Territorial Army. It has the rare distinction of having fought on both the Royalist and Parliamentary sides of the English Civil War." Served in WW1 with battle fronts in: Egypt, Palestine, Italy, France, Belgium, Aden, Syria. Its regimental memorial chapel is at St Botolphs.
See also the Archer memorial.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Honourable Artillery Company

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Finsbury war monument

The statue represents winged Victory on orb, lightly draped and holding a lau...

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London Troops War Memorial

Designed by Aston Webb with figures by Alfred Drury. The Duke of York who un...

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St Botolph's information board

The church has two information boards, both of a standard design, which we wo...

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WW1 cross at St Botolph's

Unlike the majority of war memorials this was erected while the war continued...

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G. T. Bishop

G. T. Bishop

Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
H. W. Jenkins

H. W. Jenkins

Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
J. P. Blackmore

J. P. Blackmore

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women

Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women

From their website: "With over 120,000 Jews having served in the British Armed Forces during the World Wars, AJEX JMA is here to ensure that their immense contribution is never forgotten. Our aims ...

Group, Armed Forces, Community / Clubs, History

3 memorials
Engineer Captain Charles Gerald Taylor, MVO.

Engineer Captain Charles Gerald Taylor, MVO.

A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1. A Wrexham paper has an article about Taylor: "Taylor was the first of 13 capped Wales players to lose their lives in the con...

Person, Armed Forces, Sport / Games

War dead, WW1
1 memorial