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AWARDED the Ian Hamilton Cup - 2008 At the RBLS Annual Conference in June, the Kirkwall Legion Branch was awarded the Ian Hamilton Cup for the third year running. The Ian Hamilton Cup is awarded to the Large Branch (of over 601 members) which is adjudged to have been the most efficient and progressive in all aspects of Legion activities in the previous year. Orkney War Memorials August 2008: The photos of the graves in France of another fifteen Orcadian Great War casualties have been added to the Memorials section, also Second World War graves in Holland of an RAF sergeant and an RE corporal. June 2008: Memorials updates recently added include biographies of sailor Adam Frisken of Kirkwall and Seaforth Highlander William S Norquay of Flotta, while other Flotta biographies have had new material added. April 2008: New Memorials section material added in April includes lists of Orcadians who died in World War 2's Air War and its War at Sea, also biographies of two Orcadian soldiers who survived Great War service - William Cursiter of Papa Westray and George Sinclair of South Ronaldsay. March 2008: Additions to the Memorial section in March include lists of Orcadians who died in the War at Sea during the Great War and of servicemen who died in the 1918-1920 Spanish Flu Pandemic, also new biographies of the Corrigall Brothers of Sandwick and Allen "Kentie" Smith of Stronsay. Remembrance November 2007: A selection of photos taken by Alan Gibson of the 2007 Kirkwall Remembrance Dinner and Parade can be seen here. January 2007: The late Charlie Miller, BEM, past Chairman of the Kirkwall Branch and Club. A tribute from Kirkwall President Bryan Taylor's words at the Memorial Service, 6th January, 2007 is given here. June, 2006: July 1, 1916 was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army - it suffered some 60,000 casualties, including almost 20,000 dead, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The Imperial War Museum has a graphic exhibition on the battle, which can be enjoyed and explored online here. |