Here's something you didn't know.....
Aug 22, 2016 13:43:31 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 13:43:31 GMT
Various Chilean citizens fought on the Allied side during WW1 and WWII. There are still a couple of them and their dependents alive and being supported by The Royal British Legion, the committee of which I sit on.
I am dead impressed that the UK should be taking care of those that helped it after all this time. We did a Veteran's Lunch a month or two ago where a whole bunch were welcomed to the Country Club for bangers & mash and a few beers. Very popular that was.
I am in the throes now of organising a Garden Party at the British Ambassador's home for Remembrance Day, which I expect to be well attended.
Quite heart warming, in many ways.
I like the Foreign Office, UKTI and the Embassies, I've always thought that they do a good job. They're doing it on a bloody shoe string these days, now that the average Brit doesn't think anywhere past Dover is important.
I am considerably less impressed with the RBL administrators in London.
I am dead impressed that the UK should be taking care of those that helped it after all this time. We did a Veteran's Lunch a month or two ago where a whole bunch were welcomed to the Country Club for bangers & mash and a few beers. Very popular that was.
I am in the throes now of organising a Garden Party at the British Ambassador's home for Remembrance Day, which I expect to be well attended.
Quite heart warming, in many ways.
I like the Foreign Office, UKTI and the Embassies, I've always thought that they do a good job. They're doing it on a bloody shoe string these days, now that the average Brit doesn't think anywhere past Dover is important.
I am considerably less impressed with the RBL administrators in London.
