The Royal British Legion limited edition poppy scarf
Why I support the RBL So over last few years my dad has been visiting and researching the final moments of my Great Great Uncles -Albert Deakin and Charles Frederick Deakin, so incredibly brave such fascinating stories of war - for a mother to lose not one but both sons - for me this is incomprehensible. Albert Deakin was a Machine gunner and was killed at the battle of Arras on the 3rd May 1917 with no known grave. Charles Fredrick Deakin his brother was a tunneller in the 179th tunnelling company a former previous miner, Charles helped blew up The Lochnagar mine upon returning to safe ground was later killed again in Arras by a stray shell. We have...