The Ramsbottom Branch was first established in 1921.

The following is an article from The Ramsbottom Observer in February 1922

Ramsbottom British Legion

A meeting under the auspices of the Ramsbottom Branch of the British Legion was held on Tuesday evenng in the Oddfellows' Hall. Colonel A. T. Porritt, J.P., president of the local branch, occupied the chair.

The chairman said the object of the meeting was to try to popularise the Legion for ex-servicemen, and so assist in keeping their club going. When finished their club would be one of the best equipped in this part of the country, and if ex-service men would rally round he believed it would become self-supporting in a very short time.

After pointing out that the rising generation - those in their teens - had not realised what a tremendous gap war had made in the lives of those who took part in it, he went on to say that although the world had not yet settled down to trade, he personally believed that in another twelve months, two years at the outside, we should have got back to normal conditions.

The object of the British Legion movement was to keep together all the ex-service men. In Ramsbottom and district there were 1,900 ex-service men. They must have some assistance if they were to keep the organisation going, for their's in a sense was a dying movement, for if a member died he could not be replaced, unless the scope of the movement was extended. They wanted to keep the movement going as long as they could in the memory of the sacrifices they made during the Great War.

Mr J Lister, chairman of the National Executive Council, Liverpool, and Mr Maddocks, organising secretary of Manchester, also addressed the meeting on the problems the Legion were out to solve on behalf of ex-service men. Both speakers alluded to the British Unity Relief Scheme. Captain M Stead also spoke and an appealwas made for increased membership in Ramsbottom.