Veterans Aid exists to help former servicemen and women in crisis.
2nd November, 1924: Preserved in the archives of the Public Record Office is the log book of HMS Calypso, a light cruiser of the Mediterranean Fleet, moored on the afternoon of Sunday 2nd November 1924, in Grand Harbour, Malta.
14th December, 1931: Advertisement placed by Mrs G.I. Huggins in The Times – 1931
Summer 1939;The film “SMITH” was made for the Embankment Fellowship Centre – now Veterans Aid. The idea was to raise awareness of the work that the charity undertook together with fundraising.
28th June 1939: The Luncheon for Veterans Aid (formerly The Embankment Fellowship Centre) to see a preview of the film 'Smith' was chaired by Lord Milne GCB, GCMG, DSO at the House of Commons in June 1939.
National Service was formalised as a peacetime form of conscription by the National Service Act 1948.
December, 1954: Broadcast Appeal by Miss Cicely Courtneidge realised £660. She visited Belvedere House and joined the residents in a game of snooker.
June, 1962: Broadcast Appeal by Miss Anna Neagle realised £606.
14th May, 1970: "A sketch for an illustration in the EFC booklet (Annual Review?) by my clerk, Mr Lockett, at Belvedere House, 159 Tulse Hill, SW2."
December, 1973: New Belvedere House opens. It was built next to The Rectory in Stepney. Today it is home to 55 ex-servicemen and has a computer suite, TV lounge, snooker room/gym and patio area.
August, 2005: EFC's HQ and Drop-In Centre moved to 40 Buckingham Palace Road.