A man has been arrested for posting an image of a burning poppy on Facebook. Kent Police said in a statement that the man, from Aylesham, was detai...

Remembrance Day risks becoming a divisive issue which "sugars over the horrors of war", an author and former BBC reporter has claimed. Ted Harrison...

The Royal British Legion is launching a major campaign to extend Remembrance Sunday's two minute silence to social networks. Thousands of Facebook ...

As we approach Armistice day, the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal is well and truly under way. The red symbols, worn to remember the sacrifice ...

David Cameron dug deep on Thursday to make his contribution to the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. The prime minister posed on the doorstep of N...

As the British Legion launches its poppy appeal it seems wearing the little red flower has lost none of its potency. Political, patriotic, a sign ...

The Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal starts on Wednesday with a concert fronted by singers Alesha Dixon and Pixie Lott and soldier Sapper Clive Sm...

Around 6,000 poppies, service medals and memorial plaques have been stolen from a Royal British Legion centre. The items, along with poppy wreaths,...

The British way of remembrance is different to that of anywhere else. It is at once more high state ceremonial and yet more peculiar and intimate. There is nothing in the world to compare with the Festival of Remembrance, an event both regal and rococo which is extremely admirable and yet very odd. Held in the Royal Albert Hall with nearly the entire Royal Family in attendance, it is part church service, part military tattoo, and part entertainment.

Fifa received much criticism for its decision to uphold a ban on the England and Wales football teams wearing poppies during matches. Its rules di...

Fifa has banned the England football team from wearing poppies in honour of Remembrance Day during their friendly against Spain, saying no team is all...

It's impossible to know even a fraction of the personal stories, or the tales of individual acts of patriotism and valour that went on in those four horrendous years, and with the death of Harry Patch in 2009, the First World War has now all but passed out of living memory. But that doesn't mean that we can't be grateful for the collective, incalculable sacrifice that was made so that we've got freedom now.

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Military veterans and their families are due to gather for a service to mark the 90th anniversary of the Royal British Legion. ...

The Royal British Legion has dropped the News of The World as a campaign partner in response to allegations made in several newspapers that its report...