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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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Honourable Artillery Company

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Finsbury war monument

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London Troops War Memorial

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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

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S. Eatwell

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1 memorial
Henry Rattray

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Person, Armed Forces

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
W. H. Radford

W. H. Radford

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Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
P. Beaufort

P. Beaufort

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

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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Gunner Thomas Sawyer William Robinson

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War dead, WW2
1 memorial