The Bermuda War Veterans Association (BWVA) will be selling stickers instead of traditional Remembrance Day poppies for the second year running.

According to BWVA trustee Jack Lightbourn, the charity has no choice, as the ban initiated by the Royal British Legion (RBL) last year, remains in place.

The charities fell out after the RBL complained that the BWVA does not help soldiers who served on the home front, only those overseas. It further asserted the BWVA "seriously misled" donors, and failed to distribute funds accumulated through the poppy appeal as they should have.

Mr. Lightbourn insisted his charity's way of thinking was the more logical:

"After all if you want to be a war veteran you have to go to war. These other fellows want to be war veterans. They did nothing more than discharge serviceman."

He said it isn't an unusual thing to only recognise veterans who went overseas, that countries such as Australia and New Zealand – which sent tens of thousands of men overseas – do the same thing.

Asked for his take on the feud, Robert Ricketts, chairman of the Bermuda branch of the RBL, said he could not comment on the matter.

However, Bermuda's RBL caseworker, Carol Everson issued the following statement: "The RBL serves to support all and every one of Bermuda's veterans and their families and of course this includes the members of the BWVA."

The BWVA broke its decades-old fundraising tradition of selling stickers instead of poppies last September after the RBL, a global charity for veterans based in London, withdrew its support and initiated the ban.

And it was then warned by the RBL that in the future, all monies from the Bermuda poppy appeal must be passed back to the RBL to be used for "welfare work for the whole of the qualifying community in accordance with the Legion's welfare policies".

The BWVA denied any wrongdoing and instead chose to sell stickers instead of poppies – a practice that continues this year.

Asked if the two charities are still feuding, Mr. Lightbourn said: "Very much so because they cut us off."

He explained the BWVA has made up a new sticker this year which they will be selling at various locations all over Hamilton today.

Asked if the RBL would sue the BWVA if it defied them by selling poppies, Mr. Lightbourn said he didn't know.

"The RBL has a world copyright on the poppy. Having said that, I don't think it's quite as tight as they think it is. You can't say the common word poppy to include everything.

"The poppy they use was picked out in World War I and that's the one they use. These things are very complicated and very expensive to try and take a buck and whatnot," he said.

Mr. Lightbourn said the charity felt the Bermudian public has largely supported it throughout the feud.