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...
London Troops War Memorial
Designed by Aston Webb with figures by Alfred Drury. The Duke of York who un...
St Botolph's information board
The church has two information boards, both of a standard design, which we wo...
WW1 cross at St Botolph's
Unlike the majority of war memorials this was erected while the war continued...
Other Subjects
Serjeant Ernest Harry Hann
Ernest Harry Hann was the fourth of the nine children of Harry Hann (1860-1903) and Harriet Annie Hann née Smith (1859-1923). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1886 in the Islington re...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Captain Edward Alfred Shaw
Edward Alfred Shaw was born on 16 May 1892 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, the eldest of the ten children of the Reverend Edward Domett Shaw (1860-1937) and Agnes Shaw née Gilbey (1867-1944)....
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Eagle Squadrons
Knowing that America would eventually enter the war, and inspired by stories of the RAF pilots many American men responded to the call for pilots to replace those lost in the Battle of Britain. Fr...
1 memorial
Walter Reed
American army surgeon prominent in proving that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. Born Belroi, Virginia. Died Washington.
1 memorial
A. G. Chant
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial