Plaque

Royal Regiment of Artillery - replacement plaque

Inscription

{Beneath the Royal Artillery badge with the motto Ubique Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt (Everywhere That Right and Glory Lead):}.
Royal Regiment of Artillery
On 26 May 1716 the first two permanent companies of Royal Artillery were formed by royal warrant in the reign of George the 1st. The two companies numbered 100 men each.
The warrant was signed on this site then known as Tower Place. The erection of the current building was begun in 1719. The Royal Military Academy was located here from 1741 until 1806.

Site: Royal Military Academy (2 memorials)

SE18, Artillery Square, Academy Performing Arts

Sometime 2011-17 the rather nice yellow plaque was replaced with the bronze rectangle which doesn't look new nor designed for an exterior site.

We don't consider the red plaque below the central window a memorial but, for the record, it reads "Royal Military Academy Grade II listed building, RARE, Royal Arsenal Riverside Explore".

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Royal Regiment of Artillery - replacement plaque

Subjects commemorated i

Royal Military Academy

Founded as an academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal ...

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Tower Place

In an area known as 'The Warren', the Tudor manor house 'Tower Place' along w...

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Royal Regiment of Artillery

Better known as the Royal Artillery. By royal warrant of King George I, two c...

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King George I

Born Hanover. When the last of Queen Anne's 17 children died without issue (n...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Royal Regiment of Artillery - replacement plaque

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Royal Military Academy - original plaque

Royal Military Academy - original plaque

The Royal Military Academy, 1720, attributed to Sir John Vanbrugh. Built on t...

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