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As one of Australia’s oldest and most iconic charities, Legacy currently supports 40,000 families.
Eric Easterbrook, chairman of Legacy Australia, said the charity was grateful for the support it had received from members of the royal family over so many decades.
“It is wonderful to have His Majesty continue their heartfelt support and I can’t think of a more fitting commemoration than being at Buckingham Palace in our 100th year.” he said.
“Her late majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, and his late majesty, Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh, visited Sydney Legacy on their tour of Australia in 1954 and continued to provide support for our organisation.”
Following the visit to Buckingham Palace, the relay began at the General Charles Gordon Statue in the Victoria Embankment Gardens and travelled through the streets of London, past Big Ben and the Cenotaph on the way to the Australian War Memorial at Hyde Park Corner.
Australian Victoria Cross recipient Daniel Keighran was joined in the relay by other torchbearers from London Legacy including a 101-year-old widow, families and volunteers.
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The relay began in Pozières in northern France on April 23 where Legacy has its roots in a battlefield of the Western Front in World War I.
It was founded in 1923 by a small group of returned servicemen who kept the promise to help the wives and children of their comrades who were killed in the war or died subsequently.
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