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ANOTHER excel lent response is again expected in the Kibble Valley to the ltoyal Iiritish Legion poppy appeal. With three days to go before Remembrance Sunday, there is st i ll plenty of t ime to suppor t the appea l , wi th poppies in many local shops and places of work. Many people have little or no idea where the money goes, though they know it is well spent. Nor does the public real ise that there are now twice as many war pens ion cla ims being made as Id, 20 and ,'!0 years ago. T h e r e is no au toma t ic
ent i t lement , so claim is the operat ive word, and that is whe re the Royal Br i t ish
I.cgion comes in. Last year the legion's pension depar tment helped with G.000 new claims, over ha l f of the ones submitted to the war pensions
agency. The department was handling some 15,000 on-going cases in 1999, and represented nearly all those making appeals. The phrase war pension is in i ts e l f confus ing, for a serviceman or woman affected by nat ional service, peac e keeping and even Territorial Army service can qualify for a disablement pension.
There is no time limit since the service was completed for applying, though any pension granted can only s tar t from the appl icat ion d a le . And psychological illnesses relating to service are recognised by
the system. Military negligence is another
area of the law in which the Royal Br i t ish Legion ha s special expertise. Last year, settlements negotiated by the legion with the Minist ry of Defence totalled more than
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Jus t as in pensions, there is more and more emphasis as t ime p a s se s on th e Royal British Legion’s direct care for veterans. Th e NHS,
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b re ak s . The Legion is ju s t meet the dem from ex-serviceme need of rest and
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fol lowing an b e r e a v eme n t c
per iod of life- special homes in No r th e rn
: Somerset. T h e r e is res nursing care at and several schei severely disabled. Benevolent work t< in c re a s e , wi th Si given out recently
I reln side
' nearly a fifth more previous per iod. S e rv ic eme n ’s
for
instance, makes no provision at all for
shor t term welfare - rS m
widows and wit and dependents More members ex- servic e con
Br i t ish
aging to Cor them
n in dire uperation i l lnes s , t r e s s fu l
i c r c are trscysidc,
id and t ial and
:n homes, es for the
3 is on the m. being in grants,
ban in the Lgain, ex spouses ,
widow ers, carers
alify. the older
uni lv are
f inding th a t th e i r s ta te pens ion is not me e t ing everyday ne eds . And more younger ex-service personnel a re approaching the Royal British Legion with financial, physical and psychological problems. Again, there is a
legal aspect - disability issues are becoming more complex, and the legion is responding. The Rovai Br i tish Legion’s help is by no means limited to th o se who have lef t the services a long t ime ago, or who can no longer work. For instance, one little-known initiative is a grant scheme to help ex-service people pass "The Knowledge" to become London taxi drivers. But there are also grants to help leaving service personnel set up smal l b u s in e s s e s of most kinds, with an advice
service too. Th e r e is also plenty of
counselling, and training. Tor those who seek employment
in a wide variety of skills. A real is t ic approach to the di f f icul t ies some men and women face in re-enler inf j civvy s t reet is taken b\ the Royal Br i t ish Legion. I ts in d u s t r ia l arm of fers employment in four areas the manufacture of many of the count ry's road and rail signs, making wooden pallets, "Supplv lines", a large scale mail order house, and in light assemble and packaging. At the o th e r end of the t ime sc a le , the deman d for pi lgr image s to war graves overseas has never been more ap p a ren t than it is today There are specially subsidised rates for w idows.
M o r e s iip i o r t th a n e v e r
NO one can real ly be sure why, after a brief lapse in interest, there is now more support than ever for the Royal British Legion's work and
its annual poppy appeal. Perhaps continuing internat ional tensions, and the contemporary and historical images of war seen by mi l l ions on televis ion, ha s something to do with it.
Whatever the reasons, last year s poppy day total of
TlS.Tm. was the
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THE fact that Armistice Day this year falls on a Saturday means that a large majority o people will keep tin
two minutes’ silence, hopes the Royal British Legion The eleventh hour of the eleventh day cd lie eleu nil »< ><' ' marked by about 73 per cent of people ast
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It feels that Saturday's anniversary will he oh s t r t id by even more.
A survey has shown that the vast majority ol . m ..
under- 15s are strongly in favour of remembrance observance, and this is seen as an encouraging pointer for the future.
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test ever. it only paid for about half the
ion's work. The re s t of the nev n e ed e d c ame from ations and sponsorship,
ire are some 300,000 collectors, 1 the poppies, wreaths and other n s themselves are made at a
spe Th
cial factory. is Mi l lenium year the Royal
tisli Legion is hoping to raise )m. and calls on the support of
'And now Tour round town MORE people than ever before are helping Cl ilhcroc’s poppy
"ironica'l'lv,*work and other commitments trimmed tile usual puli and club collection team to just two.
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Hut Mrs Susan ( .arncr , Irom the Ro\.il Hutisl I union Club, and Miss Julie Robinson, a muse at Catderstones. put in lots of effort am! collected L- Id durmg
"He'revS tlic'collections* says Mr Norman ( lamer , who ,s runnmg the
It'is hoped to at leas, equal and perhaps heat las, yca.'s icroid total of LG.-IOO.
R e m e in b r a 11 e e Travel a r range s visi ts to
places not often featured in t ravel b ro ch u re s , sueli as
Burma, Kohitna and Libya. Altogether some .30 countries are covered, and all troops carrv s tandard bearers and
medical staff. Remembrance Travel is keen
to show its ex p e r t is e by arranging trips tailored to the specif ic
organisations ami clubs of all kinds.
n e ed s of
evervonc to help. The use of the poppy sprang from a poem written by a Canadian doctor who served in France, " l i e shall not sleep, though poppies grow in
Flanders' fields." Poppies were chosen due to the fact
that they continued to flower in the
mud of war. After the war an American took up the idea -
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the torch and poppy red, wear in honour of our dead.” The idea ol
sel l ing poppies to help ex- s e rvic emen in need spre ad to Britain and the first was held in 1921.
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