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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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