Jolly on Parade in Skegness for 100th anniversary of Royal British Legion
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On Saturday, May 15, the RBL will be marking its centenary with a special event at the Cenotaph in London.
From 9am, the public can watch a Facebook livestream re-creating the moment from 100 years ago when veterans from four organisations, brought together by Earl Haig and Sir Frederick Lister, laid wreaths as a symbol of unity and formed the British Legion.
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Hide AdRepresentatives from the Navy, Army, RAF and Merchant Navy along with a military widow will lay wreaths to mark the centenary.
At the same time, RBL Branches around the world and across the UK will join them by laying wreaths at their local war memorials.
Locally to mark the historic moment, Steve Andrews and his team at the Hildreds Centre in Skegness are displaying 'Sgt Jolly' in full military dress.
The statue was made by the staff at the Hildreds in Lumley Road to also help the Skegness branch of the Royal British Legion celebrate their 91st anniversary on June 21.
Swopping his fisherman's outfit for a WW2 British Army uniform, Jolly first went on display on Saturday, May 8, to commemorate VE Day.
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