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Honourable Artillery Company

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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.

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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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Reginald Leonard Haine, VC

Reginald Leonard Haine, VC

Awarded the VC for his heroism on 28-29 April 1917, age 20, while serving in the Honourable Artillery Company. "His superb courage, quick decision and sound judgement were beyond praise. A splendid...

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
3 memorials
Bill Faust (Billy)

Bill Faust (Billy)

Died with Adam Meere in a fire in Bethnal Green, which started in the basement of a children's clothes shop, Sohan and Sons, and spread to the flat above. Operating out of Whitechapel Fire Station,...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy

2 memorials
Wilfred Wood, VC

Wilfred Wood, VC

Awarded the VC for his heroism on 28 October 1918, age 21, while serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers. "When the advance was held up he ran forward firing his Lewis gun from the hip, he captured...

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
H. Henbrey

H. Henbrey

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
E. A. Phillips

E. A. Phillips

Resident of Hendon who served and died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial