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
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Joe Bennett
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Lee Bennett was born on 19 January 1917 in Boise, Ada County, Idaho, USA, the eldest of the four children of Earl Phillips Bennett (1893-1977) and Ethel Lee Bennett née Ba...
War served, WW2
1 memorial
Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood
Naval officer. Born Newcastle upon Tyne. Served at the Battle of Trafalgar where he took over command on Nelson's death. Died returning home due to illness, near the Baleariac Islands.
1 memorial
Lord Edward Somerset
Soldier and elder brother of Lord Raglan. From Wikivividly : "... in 1815 they {the Life Guards} were part of The Household Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo under Major-General Lord Edward Somers...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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