Tag: Royal British Legion

• Monday, March 14th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands' 40th Anniversary: Type 21 Club Frigate Association joins Royal British Legion event

  

  Plymouth-based Type 21 Club Frigate Association will be taking part in the Falkland Islands 40th Anniversary event at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire on 14th June 2022, organized by the Royal British Legion.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 08:11 UTC

  Falklands' Representative marks century of Remembrance with Speaker of Commons

  

  The Falkland Islands Representative, Richard Hyslop, joined the Speaker of the UK House of Commons at the planting of the first-ever ‘Constituency Garden of Remembrance’ in London.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2018 - 08:10 UTC

  Falklands branch of the Royal British legion launches the 2018 Poppy Appeal

  

  The Falkland Islands branch of the Royal British Legion this week launched the 2018 Poppy Appeal, marking the yearly series of remembrance events in honor of fallen service men and women killed in conflict.

• Monday, January 17th 2011 - 16:43 UTC

  Gibraltar welcomes the visit of “True Heroes”

  

  Three soldiers seriously injured in Afghanistan have been visibly moved by the warmth of the welcome they have received in Gibraltar as the guests of the local Royal British Legion (RBL). As Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, Ranger Andy Allen and Rifleman Jake Barnett arrived in Main Street on their first morning there was loud applause from the children of St Anne’s school and the Hebrew School who had turned out to meet them.