George Kelly, 101, was honoured in recognition of more than 40 years of voluntary service to the Royal British Legion.

On Remembrance Day the garden will be completed with tributes to honour people from across the UK, Crown dependencies, ...

Poppies were chosen as a symbol of remembrance as many of the battlefields in WW1 had poppies growing ... people who feel the red poppy glorifies war. The Royal British Legion say it is not ...

Was it not sacriIege when for the first time in the history of Remembrance Day of the two world wars ... to honour SL’s own conflict dead as was done by the British in Ceylon after WW1. However the ...

Over 100 years on from the start of the First World War, the British Army is learning about ... wrote a new language of commemoration – the poppy, the two minutes’ silence, the Cenotaph ...

A crisis is facing one of Kent’s best-loved charities and could spell the end of a Poppy ... Remembrance Sunday parade. The stark warning has come from the Canterbury branch of the Royal British ...

The remembrance date was established on the initiative ... However, some historians argue that on August 1 British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey promised to Berlin that in the event of war between ...

A British author has suggested ... shows German POWs mending a road during WW1 He added: “It’s not history, it’s a very peculiar sort of remembrance of a particular horrific event.” ...

The Royal British Legion has turned to the strong stuff to fire up this year's annual Poppy appeal ... the Legion's brands in the fortnight before Remembrance Day on November 11.

During October and early November people across the UK lay wreaths in Remembrance of those who have lost their lives in conflict. Most of these wreaths are made at the Poppy Factory, based in ...