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Gosport and Alverstoke

News & Events

Below is a list of dates for your diary on what's happening in the Gosport & Alverstoke Branch of The Royal British Legion.

The Branch meetings are normally held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month . We meet in the bar area at 20:00hrs in the RBL building, 145 Brockhurst Road, Gosport PO123AX.

 

Future events

Sunday 9th June. Gosport D-Day 80th anniversary parade at the Hardway 

Friday 8th November . Standards parading at Brockhurst Junior school TBC

Saturday 9th November Portchester Remembrance Parade .Standards parading 10:10 opposite Red Lion . High street

Sunday 10th November Remembrance Sunday . Parade at Gosport War Memorial Hospital . Roads close at 09:30 . Meet at Thorngate Hall .

 

 News

All news stories with lots of photos will be archived  in the photo gallery along with a report as time permits . Please look there for branch activity. This page will feature smaller individual photos and stories

 

 

 

11 November 2020 Chairman Andy Brown was happy to receive a donation of £5000 to the Poppy Appeal from Gosport Scrubbers raised from sales of poppy face masks they made during COVID lockdown.

 

 

 

 

On 24th Oct 2019  standard bearer Ross Nicoll travelled to Buckingham Palace to deliver the royal corsages. He also did some poppy collecting while he was there.