Amber Valley Voice May 2011

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Alfreton&DistrictBranchRoyal

BritishLegion

In just a few weeks time the Royal British Legion will com-

memorate its 90th anniversary and the Alfreton & District

Branch will be joining others to celebrate our birthday at the

spring event of 11/12 June being hosted by Alfreton Town

Council.

The Legion in Alfreton is a long established facilitator of aid

to the ex-service community with its own case worker who has over 10 years

experience of welfare work.

The Legion itself was formed to aid the victims/survivors for the First World

War and at its inception did not anticipate the World War that was to devastate

another generation. After a second World War, actions in many parts of the

globe and right now approximately 10,000 service personnel serving in Afghan-

istan the Legion is as busy as it was in the 1920’s. The survivors of our “new

conflicts” are just as young and just as traumatised as those who served in previ-

ous conflicts and those who did not survive are someone’s son or daughter,

someone’s husband/wife/partner or friend thus they who did not serve also suf-

fer. The military only take the best material to mould into our professional

armed forces, the criteria of join or go to jail is long gone. The training that goes

into our armed forces is extensive, therefore our service personnel who enter

conflict are as well prepared as the Nation State can make them. All this prepa-

ration does not make our forces immune to the casualty list.

The British Legion now has the title of Royal British Legion, however its aims

have not changed in the last 90 years and in a nutshell the Legion helps the ex-

service person and their dependents in the community. All this is achieved by

donations made by YOU.

The recipients of aid cannot thank all of you, so I do. Please

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Friday29thApriltoSaturday21stMay,Varioustimes.Tickets£8-£21.

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