Representatives of the Royal Britiash Legion will lay a wreath at Wellington’s war memorial in

the town’s park tomorrow (Saturday) to mark the organisation’s centenary.

The Legion was formed by the amalgamation of four organisations which sought to fight for the interests of returning ex-servicemen and alleviate the plight of wives and children of those who had fallen.

The principal architects were Field Marshal Douglas Haig, former Commander in Chief of the British Army in France, and Sir Thomas Frederick Lister, a former Lance Bombardier who had been invalided out of the army due to war wounds.

A branch of the Legion was immediately formed in Wellington and the club opened shortly afterwards at premises which are now the community centre in White Hart Lane, though the club was to close in the late 1950s.

The wreath-laying is at 9am.