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I need to get in touch with someone from the RBL who was involved in Sundays total watery disaster. I've been trying to speak to the only number I have and it appears to be wrong or faulty. Thanks very much.

Doesn't any one know anyone in the RBL?

I found this, although I don't know if it is still current: -

Membership Secretary, Martin Derbyshire on – 0533 873 2558

The website which was supposed to be maintained by a UK member seems to no longer exist, they may have died of course!

I'll give it a go. Thanks

Keithcaley wrote: ↑

Tue 12 Nov 2024 3:14 pm

I found this, although I don't know if it is still current: -

Membership Secretary, Martin Derbyshire on – 0533 873 2558

The website which was supposed to be maintained by a UK member seems to no longer exist, they may have died of course!

On Facebook Keith/benjaminbutton….. Royal British Legion Kyrenia ……loads of photos, some names, maybe you might be able to ask on there.

Thanks Sylvie xx

Keithcaley wrote: ↑

Tue 12 Nov 2024 3:14 pm

I found this..........................

You deserve a medal for all the help you give Keith.

Thank you for the thought!

Other people are very responsive - Dalartokat for instance & waddo, to mention only two...

I thought of going through the RBL in the South as I know they do talk to each other - funny old thing, there was no contact details available for the RBL at Paphos either, then got busy and forgot - sorry.

Too late now, but thanks everyone. My husband who suffers from dementia had been asked to present the wreath for the Suffolk regiment as he's done for the last five years. However, sadly this was going to have to be his last time. The torrential storm last Sunday caused the service to be cancelled and I was trying to find out if the RBL were going to have some sort of shortened event. I realise you can only have one Remembrance service . but maybe just a token one for wreath layers. However, not to be it seems. Thanks for your help, much appreciated.

I believe wreaths were laid later but I could be wrong.

The wreaths were laid on Monday morning and finally removed today. The current Vice Chairman has been informed that people are having difficulty contacting the RBL due to the web site being removed and the branch relying on Facebook! He also agreed that there are people who, for their own reason, do not want to use Facebook and will bring the subject up at the next Committee meeting.

The only branch which seems to have a web site is Larnaca as, apparently, the Paphos branch has now closed.

Yezdeer. If you are correct then I am absolutely bloody furious. I was asked directly if, under the circumstances, my husband would be prepared to lay a wreath for the last time. I do not have Facebook but they do have my husbands phone and email address, but no communication from them. I feel you have let an old man down. I personally would like to know who laid the Suffolk Regiment wreath on his behalf as I could have taken him down to Girne on Monday.

Seems astonishing that such a moving and important event has turned out so shambolic.i laid a wreath for my regiment for 11 years. Then after Brian left the new incumbents decided to let someone else from a different unit lay it.itbworked so well under Brian so would have been simple to carry on like that. If it ain't broke don't fix it.. " bloody shambles mr Manneringbwere all doomed"

benjaminbutton wrote: ↑

Tue 12 Nov 2024 3:10 pm

Doesn't any one know anyone in the RBL?

kyrenia.chairman@rbl.community

Surely there are communication channels to organise who is representing a particular regiment or corp at a wreath laying ceremony.

You can’t have a free for all with every Tom, Dick and Harry turning up with wreaths to represent said regiment or corp.

Is there a restriction on who can lay a wreath then? After all it is "Remembrance Sunday" when any Tom, Dick or Harry - Ladies included - are allowed to remember their friends/relatives/comrades who have fallen! Or is it just a case of "some" can be remembered with a wreath but others have to remember elsewhere and not allowed to place a wreath?

I used to lead my blind friend down the mall as part of Remembrance Sunday parade (we were known as dogs then) until he sadly passed on, there were thousands of people there - remembering - and many had travelled hundreds of miles to be there. The organization was always good and everyone was satisfied with the event, many people used to just turn up with a wreath of their own and were never turned away as far as I could see.

Now it seems to have turned into a "Who you know" rather than a "Who you remember" event. Now I "remember" in my garden, with a glass of rum (and I am not even ex Navy) and say my thanks to all who have fallen to let me live!!

https://www.warmemorials.org/uploads/pu ... ns/387.pdf

Thanks waddo, lovely reply but in this case it wasn't any Tom, Dick or Harry, but a direct request from the local RBL asking if my husband would be prepared to lay wreath (again) on behalf of the Suffolks and there would be someone who would walk up the steps with him (he has a walking stick) if he appeared a tad confused. Obviously the service had to be cancelled because of the storm, but we did turn up and personnel knew we had turned up, but that was the last we heard from the RBL. My husband so wanted to have a photograph taken, holding the wreath and to attention (or at least as the best he could manage). This I was also assured would happen and I could still have taken him on the Monday. But sadly it didn't happen. Can't rewrite history unfortunately. No wonder I left the three years ago because of the clique - seems it has got worse.

The RBL UK has been attracting some pretty negative press recently.