A decade after the end of the Great War, the British Legion (as it was then known) organised for veterans and war widows to visit the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres before marching to the Menin Gate in Ypres on 8th August 1928.

Exactly 90 years later, thousands of Legion representatives have recreated the 1928 Battlefields Pilgrimage and visited the same battlefields and then, on 8th August 2018, paraded their branch standard and a wreath along the same route to the Menin Gate for the One Hundred Days ceremony to commemorate the last 100 days of The Great War and represent an entire generation that served while defending their country.

The Spenborough Branch of The Royal British Legion are proud to have been represented at this magnificent event, by two of our branch members, Martin White (Acting Standard Bearer) and Chris Wrightson (temporary Vice-Chairman), both late of The Duke of Wellingtons Regiment. Another Branch member Paul Bird (late Light Infantry) also attended and carried the Heckmondwike Branch Standard.