Please unite with us wherever you are for the national two-minute silence at 11am today, to honour and respect the courage and sacrifice of all those who served our country and to acknowledge our responsibility to work for the peace they fought so hard to achieve. #RemembranceDay

🎂 A very happy 99th birthday today to Sqn Ldr (Rtd) George "Johnny" Johnson MBE DFM - pictured far left RAF Scampton on 22 July 1943. Johnny is the last surviving original member of No. 617 Squadron Royal Air Force and of Operation Chastise, the "Dambusters" raid of 1943. #WW2

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"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the truly remarkable Capt Sir Tom Moore. He captured the heart of the nation at a dark time in our recent history, inspiring others. His legacy and determination will be remembered by a generation." Sir Andrew Gregory, Sir Andrew Gregory

🎂 It's our 136th birthday today! On this day in 1885, Major James Gildea's letter on provision for the families of soldiers & sailors on active service was published in The Times and The Sunday Times. On behalf of clients past and present, we thank you for your continued support for SSAFA's work.

Today, we join the nation to pay our respects to Captain Sir Tom Moore on behalf of SSAFA volunteers and employees across the UK. Inspiring others at a dark time in our recent history, his legacy and determination will be remembered by a generation.

Is that the time already? Fuelling the war effort in 1942! A very happy #StPatricksDay to all our followers!

This month marks the 77th anniversary of 'The Great Escape' from the Luftwaffe-run POW camp, Stalag Luft III, near the town of Sagan in Poland. We take a moment to remember the 50 Allied airmen who were captured and murdered by the Gestapo after their escape. #LestWeForget #WW2

Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visit the USS Des Moines in Valletta, Malta, in January 1950. Philip was stationed in Malta from 1949 after being posted as 1st Lt on HMS Chequers in the Mediterranean Fleet and Elizabeth worked with the SSAFA at Auberge de Castile.

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” Diarist Anne Frank died, aged 15, at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February or March 1945, shortly before its liberation by British soldiers on 15 April 1945. #BergenBelsen

On behalf of everyone at SSAFA, we send 95th birthday wishes today to our Patron, Her Majesty the Queen. #GodSaveTheQueen Her Majesty is pictured in 2013, receiving a posy from 6-year-old Harley Inns, whose brother, Rifleman Martin Kinggett, was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.

The game's afoot: Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’ Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1. #StGeorgesDay

The land returns to how it has always been. Thyme carried on the wind. - 'On Battleship Hill' by PJ Harvey Today, we remember and honour all those who fought and died in the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. #LestWeForget #AnzacDay #AnzacDay2021 #Gallipoli #WW1

🎂 Please join us today in wishing a v. happy 99th birthday to Lt Col (Rtd) Christopher Hutchinson, from Seahouses, Northumberland. #WW2 POW and Royal Tank Regiment veteran Christopher still has shrapnel in his skin from when he was captured by German forces in Italy in 1944. #VEDay

Ahead of the 76th anniversary of #VEDay tomorrow, ATS veteran, Joan Blair, 97, from Newcastle upon Tyne, shares her rendition of the wartime favourite '(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover'. Read Joan's story ▸ ssaf.as/joan #VEDay76 #WW2

Today is the 76th anniversary of #VEDay. We honour all those servicemen and women who served in the Second World War, and the sacrifices made. To those who gave so much, we thank you. #VEDay76 #WW2

At 6pm on 8 May 1945, Churchill appears on the Ministry of Health balcony to give his speech. "This is your victory. Victory of the cause of freedom." [The crowd cheers.] "There we stood, alone. Did anyone want to give in?" [“No.”] "Were we down-hearted?" [“No!”] #VEDay #VEDay76

On this day in 1944, the Battle of Monte Cassino ended after 123 days in Allied victory when the Germans finally abandoned the stronghold. Signallers of the 6th Battalion, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment are pictured using a radio in a dugout on Monastery Hill. #WW2

"And incidentally, the beer isn't cold in England." In 1942, the first of over 1.5m American servicemen arrived on British shores in preparation for Allied offensives culminating in #DDay on 6 June 1944. This clip from a 1943 training film is about how to behave in a pub. #DDay77

Today, we mark the 77th anniversary of #DDay and remember all those who fought for our freedom on 6 June 1944, and those who gave their lives. #LestWeForget #DDay77