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Good thinking Paul.
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kinnethmont
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The Royal British Legion ( Scotland) used to have a list and it was their descriptions that created the confusion between it and the actual parishes involved.
That may be because TRBL have nothing to do with Scotland.
Here it is The Royal British Legion ( Scotland). It is an older organisation than TRBL.
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spoons
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Thanks for reminding us of this Jim. I was in fact searching for 'royal british legion Scotland list of memorials' and if you put that into google it takes you to the page I listed. My error is that I did not spot that it was an RBL and not an RBLS page. Strange that google should take us to the wrong site entirely.
I will therefore amend my original suggestion, to suggest that the RBLS War Memorials page at http://www.rblscotland.com/remembrance/war-memorials/ makes no mention of this project and it would be nice if it did.
As an aside, as a local co-ordinator for RBLS poppy appeal, I have explained to all of my collectors that RBLS is separate from (and older than) RBL and also 'our' poppies do not have a leaf on them (I have had several requests for the ones with leafs that they see on TV - the English ones).
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kinnethmont
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| Quote: | | As an aside, as a local co-ordinator for RBLS poppy appeal, I have explained to all of my collectors that RBLS is separate from (and older than) RBL and also 'our' poppies do not have a leaf on them (I have had several requests for the ones with leafs that they see on TV - the English ones). |
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You could explain that the English poppy is botanically incorrect. The Flanders poppy ( and as far as I know the rest of the poppy family ) has no leaves. The poppies they are selling are made at Lady Haig's poppy factory in Edinburgh.
The page you link to is for the annual RBLS war memorials competition and is for RBLS branches, it is not a general war memorials page with links to external sites.
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spoons
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| kinnethmont wrote: | You could explain that the English poppy is botanically incorrect. The Flanders poppy ( and as far as I know the rest of the poppy family ) has no leaves. The poppies they are selling are made at Lady Haig's poppy factory in Edinburgh.
The page you link to is for the annual RBLS war memorials competition and is for RBLS branches, it is not a general war memorials page with links to external sites. |
I tried explaining about the leaf being botanically incorrect once and the poor old soul I was speaking to just didn't get it, she was sure I was wrong because everyone knows all plants have leaves!
It may be the intention that the page is just for the competition however the page at http://www.rblscotland.com/remembrance just links to it as War Memorials with no mention of the competition until you get there. This is therefore their War Memorials page.
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