Legion Magazine

The Royal British Legion (RBL), also known as The British Legion or simply The Legion, is a charitable organization in the UK. It offers financial, social, and emotional assistance to current and former members of the British Armed Forces, along with their families and dependents.

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Bites on Roman gladiator’s skeleton first hard proof of combat with lion

1 week ago | legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne

Archeologists say puncture wounds and other bite marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in England are the first hard evidence that gladiators fought animals—in this case a lion—in Europe. The evidence suggests the man was killed during a gladiator show or execution, and that the big cat gnawed on his pelvis or was dragging him across the arena about the time he died.
Who knit ya? - Legion Magazine

2 weeks ago | legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne

Nestled away on the top two floors of a four-storey stone-and-brick building overlooking the St. John’s waterfront, just a few metres from the Newfoundland National War Memorial, is a piece of Second World War history unlike any other. Fifty-nine precarious steps up the back of the former warehouse, the Seagoing Officers’ Club, established by Captain Rollo Mainguy—a B.C. native commanding Canadian navy destroyers in the British colony of Newfoundland—is the stuff of legend.
Portrait of armless Palestinian boy wins World Press Photo’s top award

2 weeks ago | legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne

Three topics emerged when a jury got down to selecting contenders for the World Press Photo of the Year. The pool of entries was massive—tens of thousands of photographs from six regions spanning the globe. Yet just three themes came to define the 2025 edition of the 70-year-old competition: conflict, migration and climate change. “Another way of seeing them is as stories of resilience, family, and community,” said global jury chair Lucy Conticello.
When trade and resources turn to war

3 weeks ago | legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne

Stephen J. Thorne An award-winning journalist, editor and photographer. He has reported on the downfall of South African apartheid and from war fronts in Kosovo and Afghanistan. All Posts
Chinese fighters take up positions alongside Russians in Ukraine

1 month ago | legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne

Stephen J. Thorne An award-winning journalist, editor and photographer. He has reported on the downfall of South African apartheid and from war fronts in Kosovo and Afghanistan. All Posts
Long-standing rumours of Putin’s impending death have been greatly exaggerated

1 month ago | legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne

Stephen J. Thorne An award-winning journalist, editor and photographer. He has reported on the downfall of South African apartheid and from war fronts in Kosovo and Afghanistan. All Posts
‘Decades-long’ resistance would destroy U.S. if it invaded Canada, says insurgency expert

1 month ago | legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne

Tariffs. Annexation. Invasion? Anything and everything, it seems, is on the table when it comes to U.S. President Donald Trump and Canada’s future. Trump has said he aims to bring economic pressure down on America’s long-time friend, ally and trading partner, and force the country to cede itself to the United States. “Canada only works as a state,” he said during the initial weeks of a 47th presidency laced with lies, disinformation and mixed messages.
Overwhelming majority of Americans oppose 51st state talk

1 month ago | legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne

With U.S. President Donald Trump threatening to tariff Canada into submission as the “51st state,” 92 per cent of Americans surveyed by the Angus Reid Institute said they had no, or only qualified, support for a merger. Sixty per cent of 2,005 Americans questioned online between Feb. 27 and March 3, 2025, said they had no interest in Canada joining the United States, while another 32 per cent said they would support the idea only if Canadians wanted it.
Invictus Games 2025: A Ukrainian athlete recounts his story

2 months ago | legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne

Ukrainian chemist Artur Mylin was working at the Academy of Sciences in Kyiv when Russian forces invaded his homeland on Feb. 24, 2022. Mylin, with a PhD in chemical sciences, two lucrative grants and a president’s scholarship under his belt, had been planning to move to Canada, home to the world’s third-largest population of Ukrainian heritage. “I wanted to move not because I don’t love my country, but to see the world and gain some experience,” he said.
The Invictus Top 40: Entertainers at the Games

2 months ago | legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne

Stephen J. Thorne An award-winning journalist, editor and photographer. He has reported on the downfall of South African apartheid and from war fronts in Kosovo and Afghanistan. All Posts