87th Annual Meeting will be held in Baltimore/Annapolis, MD
from October 6 through 9.

Members & Friends:

Below is the information for the Centennial Legion of Historic Military Commands Annual Meeting in October. PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE IN YOUR UNIT. We have scheduled a great weekend for everyone. You can click on the link in the attachment for room reservations to the BWI Marriott Hotel. Please send back your registration and ad for the commemorative book to our Treasurer, Warren Kaye. This year we have added sponsorship opportunities for the hospitality room and buses to offset costs. I am sure everyone is aware that costs have skyrocketed for travel and we are keeping costs down for everyone. Please make your reservations as we are 60 days away. We hope to see you all attend.

CL2022 Meeting Info

Click below for the Meeting Registration and Ad Book forms.

CLHMC 2022 Meeting Registration CLHMC 2022 Ad Book Form

Welcome Richmond Light Infantry Blues “1789”

Commander Eric Motley’s remarks to the Centennial Legion of Historic Military Commands

Today on the 11th of November,2022 The Richmond Light Infantry Blues has been voted into the Centennial Legion of Historic Military Commands, an association and legion of state-level military units that perpetuates those units that served and protected our country in the early days of its history, prior to, during and subsequent to the Revolutionary War.

It is a tremendous honor for us to be welcomed back into the Centennial Legion as a full member representing the Commonwealth of Virginia. When my officers and I began the prodigious undertaking of reviving the Richmond Light Infantry Blues I don’t believe any one of us anticipated this level of support or national recognition. In fact, I would say that the opposite has occurred. Even from the outset of this effort, we have received the well wishes and support of many units in the Legion who wished that one of the former Virginian units would return. I would like to thank those units in particular, as well as in particular the support of those officers from Rhode Island for leaning on us to begin the effort to reenter the Legion. It has been a long and complicated journey to revival, and I would like to express for a final time the appreciation that the membership of the Blues holds towards the Legion and its member units for allowing us this opportunity to return to this fraternity of state and national service.

Additionally, during this meeting in my capacity as Commander of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, I was elected to the position of State Director for the Commonwealth of Virginia in the Centennial Legion of Historic Commands. I intend to serve the Legion in this directorial capacity with the same loyalty and dedication that I have and will continue to lead the Richmond Light Infantry Blues for as long as I am able. Many thanks to Lieutenant Barton Hyte of Massachusetts, Colonel Ron Barnes of Rhode Island, Lieutenant Colonel John Powell of South Carolina, and Major Bruce Daws of North Carolina for these opportunities for this honored and historic organization.

87th Annual Meeting will be held in Baltimore/Annapolis, MD from October 6 through 9.

87th Annual Meeting will be held in Baltimore/Annapolis, MD
from October 6 through 9.