The Royal British Legion is a Charity that supports the serving and ex-Service community, and their families. We are probably best-known for our role as the nation's custodian of Remembrance and for the Poppy Appeal. The Legion was founded in 1921 as a voice for the ex-Service community and over 380,000 members continue to ensure that this voice does not go unheard. Although the needs of ex-Service people have changed over the years, we are still there to safeguard their welfare, interests and memory. British Service personnel are in action around the world every day of the year. They know that if they need our support - now or in the future - the Legion is always on active duty for them.
The Legion provides financial, social and emotional support to those who have served and are currently serving in the Armed Forces, and their dependents.
Legion Values
Through Remembrance of past sacrifice in the cause of freedom
HOPE
By remembering the past, a younger generation has the chance of a better future
COMRADESHIP
Through shared experience and mutual support
SERVICE
To those in need and in support of the whole community
EXHORTATION
"They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them."
KOHIMA EPITAPH
"When you go home, tell them of us, and say,
for their tomorrow, we gave our today."
John Maxwell Edmonds (1916)
The Royal British Legion is a Registered Charity. No. 219279