Shipmates
Newton Abbot Royal British Legion will be holding their annual Decoration Day Ceremony at Ogwell Cross Cemetery, Old Totnes Road, Newton Abbot at 11.00 on Sunday 7th June 2026.
The annual event remembers 28 members of our own and Allied Forces who are interned in the cemetery. Those attending are asked to arrive by 10.30.
Following the service the RBL will serve light refreshments at their club in Marsh Road.
Meanwhile, in Canada, the Royal Canadian Legion Branch in Medicine Hat, Alberta with which the Newton Abbot Royal British Legion is twinned also carry out a Decoration Day Ceremony on the same weekend in June each year.
In the ceremony at Medicine Hat, there are 128 graves of British Servicemen who were killed whilst training in Canada during the Second World War.
The headstones are cleaned before the day and poppies are placed on all except the front two rows of stones. A short service of Remembrance is carried out during which officers of the Royal Canadian Legion, Allied Organisations and various Civil dignitaries then place poppies on the remaining headstones.
Ex-forces organisations, Cadets and other military organisations are all warmly welcomed to this poignant service in remembrance of our fallen comrades.