The Royal British Legion provides welfare to those who have served or who are currently serving in the British Armed Forces. They famously run the annual Poppy Appeal and campaign on a range of issues. Learn more about them in this quiz.
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Find more information at the Royal British Legion website. Thanks to Helen Hill, The Royal British Legion Learning Team.
Founded in 1921, it was granted a Royal Charter in 1971 to mark its fiftieth anniversary
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The use of the poppy was inspired by the World War I poem 'In Flanders' Fields'
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Its opening lines refer to the many poppies that were the first flowers to grow in the churned-up earth of the muddy trenches in Flanders
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50 people, most of them disabled and ex-Service connected, work all year round. They also make wreaths laid by Her Majesty the Queen and other members of the Royal Family
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Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the official end of World War I on that date in 1918
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