{"subTitle":"Remembrance honours people who serve to defend our democratic freedoms and way of life.","backgroundImage":{"url":null,"caption":null,"type":null,"size":0,"width":0,"height":0,"altText":null},"backgroundColour":null,"content":{"layouts":[{"type":"singleColumn","areas":[{"items":[{"gridType":"RichTextBlock","content":"\u003Cp\u003ESince the Royal British Legion was formed in 1921, they have been the champions of Remembrance.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 1921, Earl Haig, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, adopted the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance during the First World War and founder of the Royal British Legion.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEarl Haig announced that he wanted 11 November 1921 to be known as Remembrance Day \u2013 today we commemorate Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day. His campaigning was successful. The Act of Remembrance was developed into what we know it as today.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEach year there\u0027s a service at the Cenotaph attended by the royal family, politicians, military representatives, veterans and members of the public.\u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThey gather in Whitehall on Remembrance Sunday, which is the closest Sunday to 11 November. It\u0027s also broadcast across the country for people to watch at home.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs Big Ben strikes 11am, a single gun is fired on Horse Guards Parade and a two-minute silence begins. 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I thought of what he meant to the whole of the London District, of his six months\u2019 work as London Organising Secretary, of his unforgettable organisation and inspiration at the London Scoutmasters\u2019 Training Camp, of the way in which he always turned up anywhere and everywhere and was always loved and always made at home. \n\nFinally, I thought of us all \u2013 the whole Scout brotherhood for never will we have a brother Scout who has striven more earnestly for the things that we all are striving for, or who has attained more fully to those things which are the goal of us all.\u2019","attribution":"","gridType":"quote","gtmId":"","gtmClass":""},{"gridType":"RichTextBlock","content":"\u003Cp\u003EAfter joining up, Slingsby kept in contact with UKHQ and in June 1915 a letter he wrote appeared in the Headquarters Gazette. 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