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
Spitalfields engine-house
'Engine-house' was an early term for what we would now call a fire station. The engine was initially merely a hand-operated pump. This and some ladders might be housed in the local church, but as t...
3 memorials
Private Howard Washbrook
Howard Washbrook was born in 1895 in Wednesfield, Staffordshire (now West Midlands), one of the ten children of Isaac Washbrook (1860-1945) and Eliza Washbrook née Brindley (1860-1920). His birth w...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir William Stanley
Soldier who fought in the Wars of the Roses. Born Lancashire. Originally a Yorkist, he switched sides and in 1485 fought at Bosworth Field for Tudor Henry VII, for which he was appointed Lord Cha...
1 memorial
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War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW1
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