Honourable Artillery Company

The Honourable Artillery Company was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1537 by King Henry VIII. During the First World War the HAC was unique in having both infantry battalions and artillery batteries in the same regiment.

Men with Lewisham connections who died during the First World War while serving with the Honourable Artillery Company and whose names appear on Lewisham War Memorials. :

• Aldersley, Eustace
• Bruster, John
• Cole, Percy
• Drysdale, Adrian Castlelaw
• Ebsworth, Harold Ernest
• Forfar, Sydney James
• Godfree, Reginald Barber
• Godfree, Tom Hatcher
• Large, Eustace Ernest
• Pigg, Bernard William
• Potter, Edmund Walter Joliet
• Scannell, Michael Henry
• Spelman, Wilfred Cubitt
• Straw, Lacy Hipwood
• Stroud, Lewis Frank
• Strutt, Francis or Frank William
• Talbot, Norman Hale
• Tolley, Walter Albert
• Underwood, Thomas Tyers
• White, Cyril Arthur

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