It’s that time of year again where people across the world don a poppy as a sign of remembrance. The most common poppy you will see is the red one, but increasingly over the last few years people have taken to wearing a white poppy instead. But what is the difference? 

Here at ROSL we are very lucky to have HM The Queen as our Patron, serving in the role for many years, alongside HRH Princess Alexandra as our Vice-Patron. In today's article we look back at the visit she made to Over-Seas House, London, with HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, on 8 March 1990. 

Violinist Mathilde Milwidsky won the String Competition at the 2017 ROSL Annual Music Competition (AMC), marking the start of what we hope will be a long association with ROSL. 

Today, members gathered at the Imperial War Museum for a private tour that explored the many different faces of war.

It is now less than five months until the XXI Commonwealth Games begin on the Gold Coast of Australia, on Wednesday 4 April 2018. The fifth time Australia has hosted the games, the multi-sport event has been held every four years since 1930, when it was known as the British Empire Games. 

The team from London headed up to Edinburgh yesterday morning to join with the branch committee in welcoming new and prospective members to our Edinburgh clubhouse.