<br />
spring 2014<br />
the ROYAL BRItISh<br />
LegIOn<br />
shoulder to shoulder with all who serve<br />
70<br />
fRIdAY 6 june 2014<br />
YEARS ON<br />
we commemorate the biggest wartime<br />
operation ever, with veteran memoirs<br />
from sword Beach...<br />
“Wearing the Queen<br />
gives you your pride<br />
As fellow veterans, the Chelsea Pensioners understand what it means<br />
to be a soldier – and why life at the Royal Hospital might be for you<br />
“We are like a huge<br />
regimental family”<br />
Brian Cumming MBE, 81,<br />
ex-Royal Corps of Signals<br />
“I married in 1951 when I was 18. Four<br />
days later, I was shipped off to Egypt and<br />
didn’t come back until I was 21. I served<br />
for 33 years and was posted to Cyprus,<br />
Singapore, Holland and Germany. But the<br />
hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life<br />
was say farewell to my wife Patricia when<br />
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