James Clark, HM Consul General in Chicago, has released a statement ahead of Remembrance Sunday, Remembrance Day and Veterans Day in tribute to all who have served in our Armed Forces.

     From the Consul General

"In the coming days, citizens of the United Kingdom and United States will take time to remember the high price generations of brave Americans and Britons have paid in serving their country in the Armed Forces.

More than 600,000 British soldiers were killed in the First World War.  And, since 1921, people in the United Kingdom have honoured the men and women of the Armed Forces through the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal.  The money raised goes to support charities benefitting ex-servicemen and women and their families.

We recognise the fallen, surviving veterans, and current service members on Remembrance Sunday and Remembrance Day – the 11th of November – which is also Veterans Day in the US. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month was the time the Armistice – which ended the First World War – was signed.

For the first time, we in the UK will enter Remembrance Sunday with no surviving veterans of The Great War.  We will always remember and be indebted to them, as to all who have served;  not least the more than 8,000 British troops serving now in Afghanistan.  

I am proud to wear my poppy, and to be marking this Remembrance Day on behalf of the British Consulate-General in Chicago."

Notes for Editors

The Royal British Legion

Poppy Appeal

UK campaign in Afghanistan

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