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5 unusual facts about Honourable Artillery Company


Ashton Lever

In the same year he founded Archers' Hall, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London for the Archers' Company of the Honourable Artillery Company.

Court of Assistants

Another example is the Honourable Artillery Company which has an Annual General Court open to all members.

Leonard Bridgman

During the First World War, Bridgman served as an officer in the Honourable Artillery Company.

Ordnance QF 15-pounder

B Battery, Honourable Artillery Company and Berkshire RHA were in action with these guns in the recapture of Sheikh Othman (key to the water supply to Aden) from the Turks on 20 July 1915, part of the Aden campaign.

The gun was used by Royal Horse Artillery batteries of Territorial Force cavalry units (Yeomanry) early in World War I, most notably in the campaign in Egypt against the Senussi by A Battery, Honourable Artillery Company and the Nottinghamshire RHA.


Company quartermaster sergeant

Squadron quartermaster sergeant is the equivalent in the Royal Armoured Corps, Special Air Service, Royal Engineers, Royal Corps of Signals, Army Air Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Logistic Corps, Honourable Artillery Company, and formerly in the Royal Corps of Transport.

Light Cavalry HAC

Amongst their then duties was that of guarding the Lord Mayor of London, a role taken over more recently by the Company of Pikemen and Musketeers of the Honourable Artillery Company.

London Football Association

It has had many headquarters since its foundation in 1882, including Paternoster Row, St. Mark’s College Chelsea, Finsbury Barracks, Leytonstone, Manor Park, Barking, and Lewisham.


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