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Liga dos Combatentes | |
Abbreviation | LC |
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Formation | 16 October 1923 ( de facto ) 29 January 1924 ( de jure ) |
Founder | João Jaime de Faria Affonso (1896–1966) |
Type | Ex-service organisation |
Legal status | Public utility status (instituição de utilidade pública) |
Headquarters | 18, Rua João Pereira da Rosa Misericórdia, Lisbon |
Publication | Combatente |
Website | www |
The League of Combatants ComTE MHTE MHIH ComB MHM (Portuguese : Liga dos Combatentes), originally established as the League of Combatants of the Great War (Portuguese : Liga dos Combatentes da Grande Guerra), is a Portuguese ex-service organisation established following the First World War. A private institution with public utility status, it is answerable to the Ministry of National Defence.
The first meeting of the League of Combatants of the Great War took place on 16 October 1923, [1] at the office of the lawyer João Jaime Faria Afonso in Lisbon. [2] Faria Affonso had been lobbying for the creation of the League starting in 1919, but achieved little initial success. [1]
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