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Our staff, members and volunteers have been at the heart of RBL for 100 years. Find out more about our unsung heroes who work tirelessly for their communities.
Remembrance Sunday is a national opportunity to remember the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms and protected our way of life.
Gian Singh’s Gian's battalion was deployed to the jungles of Burma, where he undertook the actions that would earn him the Victoria Cross.
Bill Speakman was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1951 for protecting comrades in battle during the Korean War – the first to be invested by Queen Elizabeth II.
Following our successful campaign, veterans such as Keith Clarke no longer see their military compensation taken to cover social care costs.
As African men from the Fourteenth Army returned home in 1945, they found the war had brought subtle and profound change to the continent.
Remembering the end of the Second World War
The incredible story of how Major John Monro escapes a Japanese POW camp during the Second World War and received the Military Cross.
Harry Leigh-Dugmore was evacuated from Dunkirk as part of Operation Dynamo in May 1940. Read his remarkable story.
For millions of pre-partition Indian Army soldiers who had fought in the Far East, peace brought a number of challenges.
When war broke out in Korea in 1950 Bill Fox jumped at the chance for adventure and volunteered to serve. But he had no idea what was in store for him on the other side of the world.
The Battle of Britain raged across our skies 85 years ago. We remember the brave pilots and groundcrew who served.
An essential part of maintaining morale was keeping troops entertained. Most units had a joker, and larger units would stage pantomimes.
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.
Our support can be a lifeline for many serving and ex-serving personnel and their families, but we need your help to continue providing these services.
While sisters Pat Davies & Jean Argles served in the Second World War as codebreakers, their father had been captured and taken as a prisoner of war in the Far East.
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