10/27/2026
History in the making again!
Tonight we were honored to be joined by the family of Ancient G. Gregory White for the official dedication of our 3lb cannon which he had cast in 2016 with the seal of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in the barrel. He named the gun "Judge" in honor of his father. Following his passing, his family generously donated the cannon to the Company. Earlier this year on the 250th anniversary of Evacuation Day, the AHAC Gun Crew fired the cannon on Dorchester Heights marking the first time the AHAC fired its own cannon in 172 years.
Pictured below is the family of G. Gregory White with Captain Commanding Damiano and the AHAC Gun Crew:
AHAC Gunners:
Capt. Dan May
Lt. Bob Collins
Lt. Rich Kingsborough
SSgt. John Wilder
Sgt. Nathan Ulrich
Lt. Joe Regan
Lt. Ron Barnes
The family was presented with a certificate which stated:
The Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company
of Massachusetts
Extends our most sincere and heartfelt gratitude to the Family of
G. Gregory White
who, from his enlistment on the Third of April Two Thousand Seventeen, until his passing on the Second of August Two Thousand Twenty-Four, did serve in line with the highest spirit and traditions of this storied Company; and who’s tangible legacy of the field piece “JUDGE”, has already served to resurrect the traditions of “Ancient” manned artillery for the first time in 172 years, we hear by recognize and remember Pvt. White as:
Master of the Gun.
Hereby ordered in my name and under the seal of the Company, this Twenty-Sixth day of October, year of our Lord, Two Thousand Twenty-Six, and the Three Hundredth Eighty Ninth year of our Company:
John S. Damiano III, 318th Captain, Commanding;
Daniel G. May, Chief Gunner, 298th Captain, Commanding
