The Royal British Legion is recognised as the national custodian of Remembrance.

Remembrance Sunday, the second Sunday in November, is the day traditionally put aside to remember all those who have given their lives for the peace and freedom we enjoy today.

The Yeovil & District RBL Branch work closely with the Yeovil Town Council in assisting the Towns Annual Sunday Parade & Memorial Service as well, as observing the Armistice Day Service at the 11th Hour, on the 11th Day of the 11th Month at the Yeovil War Memorial and the Commonwealth War Greaves (CWGC) in Yeovil Cemetery.

Parishioners, of ST John Baptist Church Yeovil, maintain an Annual Garden Of Remembrance each year, whereby members of the Public may place personal wooden crosses (these will be collected up for safe keeping and re-laid out the following years Remembrance period).

Note: as continuance act of remembrance YTC remove the Wreaths form the War Memorial in early December to a safe place, before Y&D RBL Members Collect the Wreaths and relay them at the CWGC Plots in Yeovil Cemetery.

The Branch also assists Veterans of the Falklands Island Campaign 1982 & SAMA82 to hold an annual remembrance service on the 14th June at the FI Maple Trees & Stone situated in the churchyard adjacent to the Bell Tower of St John the Baptist Yeovil. 

View our related contents and the news & events calendar for details of local Remembrance events covering the following local areas:

Brympton, Chilthorne Domer, Chilton Cantelo and Ashington, East Chinnock, Ilchester, Limington, Marston Magna, Mudford, Queen Camel, Rimpton, Sparkford, Stoke Sub Hamdon, Tintinhull, Yeovil, Yeovil Without, Yeovilton.

Click on the link below to search for Commonwealth War Grave Commission (CWGC) Sites, within the Yeovil Area: Search Results | CWGC(C

Click on the link below to search for Somerset War Memorials with 5 miles of Yeovil

Search - War Memorials Online  .

Search - War Memorials Online.

Yeovil Town War Memorial Yeovil Town War Memorial - YeovilTown.com.

Preston Plunkett War Memorial & St James Church (CWGC), Preston Road, Yeovil. Preston Plucknett (warmemorialsonline.org.uk).

Yeovil Town WWII American Forces Plaque - Lloyds Bank, The Brough Yeovil (US soldiers plaque) (warmemorialsonline.org.uk).

Yeovil Town Falkland Memorial Maple Trees and Stone - St John's Churchyard (opposite Bell Tower Doors) Provided by Rotary Club Yeovil - Not Registered with War Memorial Online UK.

St John the Baptist Church, Yeovil - Window Lights & Plaque to: Captain Cecil Irby Prowse and Brigadier General Charles Bertie Prowse DSO (warmemorialsonline.org.uk).

Yeovil Library - Charlie Gillard Yeovil Fireman April 1941 -Wall Tablet in car park rear of Library of Old Corn Exchange Charlie Gillard (warmemorialsonline.org.uk).

Yeovil Town Cemetery Preston Road CWGC Yeovil Cemetery | Cemetery Details | CWGC & RBL Project 100 Oak Tree.

Pittards PLC - employees of Yeovil Memorial Plaque (Note: this Plague is situated inside the factory offices which is subject to Sale by foreclosure of factory site - C W Pittard and Company Ltd (warmemorialsonline.org.uk) 

RNAS Yeovilton, HMS Heron Chapel, St Bartholomew's Church & RN Cemetery (CWGC) and the Falklands Avenue (Sports Field) - Not Registered with War Memorial Online UK.

The following location's in Bold have a War Memorial registered with: War Memorials Online .

Brympton, Chilthorne Domer, Chilton Cantelo and Ashington, East Chinnock, Ilchester, Limington, Marston Magna, Mudford, Queen Camel, Rimpton, Sparkford, Stoke Sub Hamdon, Tintinhull, Yeovil, Yeovil Without, Yeovilton. (Brympton d'Evercy, Thorne Coffin, Nether Compton, Over Compton, East & West Coker, Hardington Mandeville, Barwick & Stoford, Trent, Odcombe,).