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dhubthaigh Our first ever 1000-poster
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 5071 Location: Blairgowrie, Perthshire
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:02 pm Post subject: PERTH WAR MEMORIAL CLUB |
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I believe that the Perth W.M. Club in George St. , Perth has closed. I was in there last year during my 'Spring offensive' and there was a Brass Plaque commemorating Perth's fallen in the Great War (no names). It was busy at that time and I was unable to take a photograph. |
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dhubthaigh Our first ever 1000-poster
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 5071 Location: Blairgowrie, Perthshire
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Janet
Joined: 17 Jan 2009 Posts: 38 Location: Perth
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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Although the Perthshire Advertiser states that Perth W. M. Club is closing, the club was usually called the British Legion Club. On the photo of the plaque I can make out only the word British. Is Legion perhaps the word below that?
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Jim
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:09 am Post subject: |
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Janet wrote: | Although the Perthshire Advertiser states that Perth W. M. Club is closing, the club was usually called the British Legion Club. On the photo of the plaque I can make out only the word British. Is Legion perhaps the word below that?
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Yes. Some logos carry the text 'The Royal British' above the big cat (lion? leopard?) and the word 'Legion' below. |
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kinnethmont
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:56 am Post subject: |
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The organiation was founded in Scotland by Earl Haig as the The British Legion in 1921 which explains the wording on the plaque.
This came about due to a merger of four existing organisations. An organisation of the same name was later established in England.
Later on the ( Scotland ) ending was added. This became the The Royal British Legion ( Scotland) in 1971 due to a Royal Charter.
The emblem is a lion. _________________ Jim
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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DelBoy
Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 4858 Location: The County of Angus
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Opened on November the 6th 1920 by Major-General Francis Davies.
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Janet
Joined: 17 Jan 2009 Posts: 38 Location: Perth
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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This is not the same club. The British Legion Club was in George Street. It was up a close between two parts of the former Cameron's furniture and carpet shop.
The Ex-Serviceman's Club still exists, I think. It is somewhere around Market Street, off Caledonian Road.
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