Unity Badges - Royal British Legion in North Staffordshire

History and Online Museum of the Royal British Legion in North Staffordshire

	Unity Badges of the Founding Associations

The British Legion

The History of The British Legion commenced with its formation on Sunday 15 May 1921 by the amalgamation of four other associations as a result of the 1920 Unity Conference:

National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers (1916)

National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers (1917)

Comrades of The Great War (1917)

Officers' Association (1920)

The amalgamation of these four* diverse bodies can be attributed largely to two men Field Marshall Earl Haig and Mr T F Lister of The Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers. The Unity Badge exhibition below is a collection of almost all the ex-service associations that formed the British Legion. See also Comrades of The Great War Badge Exhibition.

*National Union of Ex-servicemen
It is not widely known but there were in actual fact five organisations involved in the early unity talks of August 1920, but the National Union of Servicemen withdrew from the talks and have been lost in the annals of ex-service history.

Once again this online museum thanks the British Legion Memorabilia Collectors Club for their generosity in allowing this collection to be displayed to a wider audience.

Take a visit to
British Legion Memorabilia Collectors Club
a dedicated web site for the serious collector of British Legion History.

Unity Badges of the Founding Associations