Remembrance Weekend 2024

Hello folks good morning.

Hope you all had a poignant Remembrance weekend - enjoying seeing old faces and meeting new people in the remarkably small world that is the UK Service family.

I had been at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday night for the Festival of Remembrance as a guest of the Royal British Legion (RBL) as my team at MFS Casting had been the Cast and Military Advisors for the RBL TV Ad campaign that you will probably seen in the last fortnight or so. I've attached the video of the campaign below and some of the shots from inside the venue.

We were approached to Cast and provide military advice on the Campaign, which has been well received, and RBL report anecdotally only so far that their call-centres have seen an uptick in inbound calls citing the Campaign as the initiation of reaching for help.

The theme being the mental health of those who serve - while we are equipped with kevlar 'lids', body-armour, eye and hearing protection, for land forces; flying suits and helmets for our Aircrew; anti-flash protection for our Sailors, our experiences accumulated as part of service life can take a psychological toll, and the RBL offer support to those who suffer within themselves as a result of the experiences they have endured.

This is not limited to combat or peace-keeping operations, and experiences in training can be as dangerous and traumatic.

Since cessation of hostilities in 1945 a further 7000+ British (I believe that includes overseas dependencies) service personnel have been killed in action, which is reasonable to assume that a far greater number still endure psychological pain from their experiences.

Let us remember all at the going down of the sun, and in the morning - military, civilian, still suffering and those now gone.

Until the next time.

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