Loughton Royal British Legion
The Website of the Loughton Branch RBL
Rickmansworth Paul Harding 
Herford Eddie Hefferman MBE 
Market Harborough Tom Ashmore
Halton Des D'Arcy
Riders Graham Barber 
Middleton & District Julian Kirk
High Wycombe Pearl Lewis
East Ham & District Peter McMullan-Bell
Princes Risborough Pauline Greaves
Thurmaston Dave Atterbury
Marlow Brian Simmons
Portugal Daran (Daz) Behenna 
Dominion Command Bob Butt 
Welwyn Garden City Ray Crawley
Cheltenham Tricie Lewis
Harwell Sandie Pateman 
Upton Vic Bowkett
Tetbury HL "Peter" Pierce
Liskeard Jonathan Stevens
Chaddesden Jim Anderson
Coomber Adrian G. Hanna 
San Francisco Patick Sweetman
Lane End Peter Jennings
Epping & District Matt Davis
Loughbrickland Norman Allen
Spain North Danny Coburn
Paris Mark Yates 
Bordeaux Richard Holworthy
Dundry Paul Quick
Buckhurst Hill Steven Goddard
Bergen-Hohne Terry Kirkham
Esquimalt 172 Doug Grant
Coin Harry Petty
Switzerland Michael Type 
Gibraltar John Goodyear 
El Campello Ian Thomas
Pego Mike Ives
Seaford Terry Herbert
Torre del Mar Gail Mooney
Costa Brava David McMurdie
Brittany Val Davenport
Brussels Myriam Wraith 
Minden Bob Lacey
Albox Sue Bignell
Celle Roger Bonewell
Shropshire County Peter Westwell
Maple Ridge Branch 88 Terry Alleyn
Central RBL Band Caroline Docherty
St Annes Albert Cooper
Sheringham & District Melanie Clarke
North East County Alan Ronaldson
Ulster Defence Regiment Webmaster
Portadown Webmaster
Mollina Bob Wheatley
Banbury Chris Smithson
Brittania Branch #7 Angela Bertoia
Nantwich & District Dave Skitt
Mojacar Bryan Baker
Randalstown Robin Murray
Chipping Campden Derek Houckham
Downham & District Horace Cross
Marbella Jackie Farenden
Lyon Liberation Keith Gordon
Hedon & District Gordon Lane
Tipton John Bayliss
Torremolinos V. Rev. Dr. Peter Miln
Whalley # 229 Diane Courneyeur
Cottreall-Warner Memorial Post 942 Don Linborg
Benajarafe David Pusey
Cornwall Keith Naylor
National Service Assoc. Australia Allen Callaghan
Warwick Branch N.S.A.Aus Ron Bryant
Andover John
Other Contacts
Royal Anglian Regiment Museum
Andy Murkin
Loughton Town Council
Paul Hoy
Military Sites List
Dave Davis
Loughton Community Network
Sue Taylor
Kyotee
Mathew Hall
UK Villages
Wendy
Abrexa UK
Ellen
Webring
Loughton History
Christine Calder
Loughton Information
Online
The Forester
June Boreham
Epping Forest District Museum
Jill Holmen
Australia's Leading Travel Guide
Loughton & District Historical Society
Chris Pond
Karen
Certain events changed the course of World War II - the D-Day Landings, the cracking of the Enigma code and the consumption of Spam.
According to former Soviet Union Prime Minister, Nikita Khrushchev, who claimed the protein-packed rations kept the Red Army going.
The US Company Hormel had shipped £100m of the stuff overseasby the end of the war!
Dubbed 'Miracle Meat' by the forces, one GI reportedly saved his own life by throwing SPAM at a Japanese soldier rushing at him with a grenade - it startled the enemy so much, the grenade went off in his hand before he could throw it.
Invented in 1937 by Hormel Foods, it was originally called SpicedHam, until American Ken Daigneau won a $100 competition to find a new name and SPAM was born.
SPAM was put at the top of school menus in the 1960's, immortalised by Monty Python in the 1970's, and soldits six billionth can in 2002.
Taken from Winter edition of Legion
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of Englands, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Sub-Lieutenant Rupert Chawner Brooke
Royal Navy Reserve
Born: 3rd August 1887, Rugby, England
Died: 23rd April 1915
Buried: Skyros (isolated grave)
bravenet.com