Number Seeking Help From Combat Stress Doubles Amid Afghanistan Crisis
It comes as an extra £2.7m worth of funding has been announced by the government for veteran mental health services.
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Royal Marines Royal Marines Row Length Of UK Coast For Charity Challenge
The team rowed on machines for 56 hours and 47 minutes to cover 3,200km.
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Forces Charities Charities Launch Campaign To Give Royal Marines Veteran 'Funeral He Deserves'
Former serviceman Ian Campbell, also known as John Harley, died alone in the Queen Alexandra Hospital, aged 78.
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Veterans WWII Prisoner Of War Celebrates 102nd Birthday By Fundraising For Forces Charities
Norman Lewis, who was held in Poland during the Second World War, is raising £10,000 to reflect his 10,000-mile escape.
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Forces Charities Inside The Model World Giving Veterans A 'Sense Of Pride'
Models for Heroes is a charity aiming to promote the use of model making as a therapeutic and meaningful activity for service personnel.
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Forces Charities Troops Will Once Again Be Offered Free Tickets To Music And Sporting Events
Military charity Tickets For Troops is back in action having already allocated more than 1,000 tickets
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Gaming How Playing Black Ops: Call of Duty Will Help Raise Money For Veterans
BFBS has partnered with Esports to host the Legion Games Services Showdown to raise money for the Royal British Legion
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Stories Living With Incurable Cancer: How An RAF Reserve Is Being Supported By His Military Family
Flt Lt James Iddon's colleagues are going above & beyond to support him and his family
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History Did You Know Disabled Veterans Have Made Motorway Signs Since The 1960s?
Royal British Legion Industries has helped disabled veterans with work like this since 1919
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Forces Charities How deployed parents can read to children to ease separation anxiety
Military charity Reading Force is celebrating ten years of supporting forces kids
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Forces Charities Murdered Ex-British Army Engineer Hero Honoured By Landmine-Sniffing Rat
Christopher Howes was kidnapped and murdered by Khmer Rouge guerillas in 1996
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Rugby Union UKAF's Rugby Director Completes 907km Nightingale Charity Cycle Challenge
Lieutenant Commander Michael 'Doc' Cox cycled from Glasgow to London and visited all the Nightingale hospitals on the way.
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History How The Memory Of Two Fallen Soldiers Is Kept Alive On A Remote Scottish Island
How does the Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintain such remote graves?
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Veterans 'It's Wonderful': Robotic Arm A Life-Changer For Veteran Paratrooper
Jon Noble was seriously injured in a road traffic accident in 2003, leaving him paralysed in his hands, arms, torso, and legs.
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Forces Charities Armed Forces Bill: Military Charities Urge Government To Strengthen Legislation
National Government will not be legally obliged to consider the military community in decision-making under the current bill.
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History The Royal British Legion at 100: How the RBL helped disabled veterans back to work after WWI
How did the RBL help this new generation of disabled men return to work?