Thread: March 4 Honour - Poppy Appeal 2010

Donations welcome: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rampatten

Dear ALL,

I, LCpl Ram Patten RM, am a Royal Marines Commando currently serving with the United Kingdom Landing Forces Command Support Group in Plymouth. I joined the Royal Marines in 1999, and have been deployed on exercises and operations throughout the world with my most recent deployment being Operation Herrick 7 in Afghanistan.

I have decided to speed march a sponsored mile to mark each loss the British Armed Forces have sustained since the beginning of Operation Herrick in Afghanistan and Operation Telic in Iraq.

I want to emphasise that we value each serviceman and woman who serves in HM Forces. The Royal Marines participants will complete a distance representing the UK losses in Afghanistan, and the other three services will cover the distance representing the UK losses during the Iraq war. The four pairs will converge on Wootton Bassett in order to pay our respects to the town and all the attending associations for their unfaltering dedication during repatriation ceremonies. We will then proceed as a column of eight to The Royal Albert Hall in central London. There are discussion to have two veterans from each service accompanying the column of eight, thus making it a column of 16 plus one Royal Marines PTI leading the group to London.

This event is designed to coincide with the RBL Festival of Remembrance memorial service on Saturday 13 November 2010. Start times for each team will be worked back from the 13th November 2010 and calculated at a daily marching distance of 30 miles. As it stands, it should take nine days in total. Due to the current operational climate in Afghanistan the mileage may increase, but I have accounted for that and every dedicated mile "in memoriam" will be covered without fail.

I would like to request for your support by joining the March 4 Honour event page on Facebook. There is plenty of text, photographs, a video, discussion groups, etc. You can also support my Tri-Service charity event by inviting ALL your friends in your network. I am in the process in making this as international as possible. So far I have managed to get the word out to the USA, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Iraq, Afghanistan, most of Europe, Zimbabwe and South Africa to name but a few. With your help, we can get ALL of the UK behind this event. Our event.

The Royal British Legion plan to make my event(s) as part of their Poppy Appeal for 2010. I plan to convince them that this idea is far too good an opportunity to miss and will make a bid to make this THE Poppy Appeal for 2010. So far their response has been very positive and they have stated that they really look forward to making this the first ever real civilian and military collaboration.

Please take 2 minutes of your time to view and/or join the:

Website (www.march4honour.com)
Facebook page (March 4 Honour)
Twitter page (march4honour)

The website (www.march4honour.com)is currently under construction. In the meantime, e-mail me on march4honour@live.com with any questions concerning the M4H event.

Donations welcome: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/rampatten

Thank you for your time and I hope to see you on Facebook soon.

All the best, Ram.

Excellent stuff Ram - keep us posted!

Thanks Dozy. Will do. Hope you have joined the facebook page and/or Twitter and that you keep telling your friends to support the cause as you have. All the best for the New Year. Ram

Originally Posted by march4honour

Thanks Dozy. Will do. Hope you have joined the facebook page and/or Twitter and that you keep telling your friends to support the cause as you have. All the best for the New Year. Ram

Yup, I've done that and have sent an invite to all my contacts to do the same. Once you get your publicity material sorted, I'll get some stuff printed and put it up where I can. I'm sure you'll have loads of supporters by the time of the march!

Please take a look at the FB page to see Ram's progress and training (the crazy man)!

Hi Ram

I've given this a plug on the Army Families Federation website, hope it meets with your approval!

Best wishes

AFF Voice

Nice one! The more that know about this the better - would be great if Ram's hard work is really rewarded with some great fund-raising.

Dear AFF Voice, I have just seen the site and cannot thank you enough for your support. I am so glad to have you helping out. It is really motivating to see and receive such support. I am truly humbled. Thank you...Ram.

I thank each and every one of you. All the best, Ram.

Bump!

Originally Posted by march4honour

Dear AFF Voice, I have just seen the site and cannot thank you enough for your support. I am so glad to have you helping out. It is really motivating to see and receive such support. I am truly humbled. Thank you...Ram.

I thank each and every one of you. All the best, Ram.

Thats so sweet! It's a great thing you are doing hun. My boy was out during Herrick 7 as well attached to marines- driving vikings. When my computer decides it likes facebook again I'll find your page.

crack on etc x

I can't find it on facebook all they give is a link to British Legion? Any ideas anyone?

Just copy and paste March 4 Honour into the search field - it should come up.

I should have made it a little more clear. I have attached a link which directs you strait to the page. Thank you all for youe amazing support. All the best, Ram.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/March-...r/186456851422

Donations welcome: https://www.bmycharity.com/V2/rampatten

found it ta for link ! Invited every sensible squaddie loving person I know x

Just seen this thread.

I am about to join the face book page but wondered if you had a summary paragraph that I can insert as a Status Update. Like many people I have many friends who will copy and paste it to their statuses as well.

Hp
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I suspect that Ram is really busy with his day job, training, organising and not least his family, but I've no doubt he'll see your query. In the meantime, I've taken this from the M4H Facebook page:

The March For Honour is a Tri-Service collection of four teams represented by the Royal Marines Commandos, the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force. The four teams will start from four separate locations in the UK, speed marching a commemorative and individually dedicated mile for every UK loss sustained in Afghanistan & Iraq. The teams will be raising money on behalf of the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal 2010 in honour and in memory of our service men & women and our Veterans, who have sustained physical and mental injuries, including the bereaved families of those Killed In Action.

Thank you very much for your support. ALl the best, Ram.

Listen to Ram on BBC Devon (Play Again function):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...wo_08_02_2010/

Ram's interview starts at 0:53:35


See March 4 Honour's print media coverage here:

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news...l/article.html

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news...l/article.html