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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

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London Troops War Memorial

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St Botolph's information board

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WW1 cross at St Botolph's

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John Sherwood-Kelly, VC

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