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Rajindar Singh Dhatt was born in Punjab and joined the army in 1941. He was part of the relief at Kohima and Imphal before serving in the gruelling Burma campaign.
RBL is recruiting four Trustees for its Board of Trustees and seven representatives for the Membership Council.
Army veteran Steve King is looking forward to his first Christmas in his new home after we rescued him from homelessness during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Armed Forces community Needs Analysis is a research project by the Royal British Legion using the quantitative data of the profile and needs of the Armed Forces Community to inform future strategy, policy, and service delivery.
Born in pre-partition India in a village in Rawalpindi Muhammad Hussain, 95, was 16 years old when he ran away from home to enlist in the British Indian Army during the Second World War.
Read our tips and resources to help those currently serving, veterans and their families with budgeting and financial management. Find more information here.
The welfare and wellbeing of the Armed Forces has been at the heart of RBL since our inception in 1921. One of our earliest interventions saw us create a dedicated hospital and village to support ex-serving personnel suffering from tuberculosis after the First World War.
By the end of 1945 troops were back home in the UK. But a UK that looked very different from the one they’d left when at the outbreak of war.
The Royal British Legion launches "Credit their Service", a campaign demanding an end to the unfair treatment of military compensation as income in welfare benefit means tests.
We offer many ways to celebrate the life and memory of loved ones and to continue the commemoration of our Armed Forces community.
The Book of Remembrance is a lasting testament to the memory of your loved one. Inscribe their name into the Book and honour their life.
As African men from the Fourteenth Army returned home in 1945, they found the war had brought subtle and profound change to the continent.
Pessima Lamboi, from Sierra Leone, was one of 600,000 Africans to serve in the war. He bravely faced gruelling combat and conditions in Burma.
Pat Owtram joined the WRNS at 18, listening to and translated enemy communications, while she and her sister feared for their father who was a prisoner of war.
As a carer it can be hard to find the time to look after yourself. We're here to support you, and those you’re caring for, to get the help you need.
Joshua was 19 when he joined the Army in Gold Coast (now Ghana) and went on to serve in the Far East campaign in pre-partition India and Burma.
