News & Updates

WWII veteran, John Clarke MBE, from Ware in Hertfordshire died on Wednesday 5 October aged 98. Born 19 April 1924, John was just 17 when...

WWII veteran, Albert Wiltshire, who served with Combined Operations in the Royal Navy in WWII died on 16 September at the age of 99...

On Thursday 28 July, Alfie ‘Fred’ Lee, from Odiham in Hampshire, a much-loved member of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, died at...

On 9 July 2022, WWII veteran and former Queens’s Bargemaster Major Ted Hunt MVO died aged 102 Edwin ‘Ted’ Hunt MVO, a retired waterman...

Roy 'Doug' Miller from Wallington, who recently moved in with his daughter in Kenley, Croydon had two daughters and was a very popular...

WWII veteran, Jeff Haward MM, who fought from Dunkirk to D-Day, died on 3 March aged 102 Jeff Haward was born in Finchley in 1919; he had...

Chelsea Pensioner, Roy Knight, died on 16 January 2022, aged 92 Roy Knight served with the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and was a popular...

The Taxi Charity was deeply saddened to hear of the death of WWII veteran, Alan King, on 30 December 2021. WWII veteran, Alan King (97),...

The Taxi Charity was saddened to hear that veteran Jim Knox died on Wednesday 29 December. Jim Knox, from Upminster, was a much-loved...

The Taxi Charity was saddened to learn that 101-year-old Wilfred Oldham MBE has died. Wilf, from Radcliffe, near Bury, was born in 1920...

On 10 November, the Taxi Charity learnt that Major James Corrigan, one of the charity family had died in hospital Major Corrigan was born...

Today we bid farewell to Ken Watts, another of our wonderful World War II veterans. Ken was in 2nd Battalion The Devons, Gold Beach D+2....

The Taxi Charity lost another of its family yesterday when WWII veteran Harry Bailey, who was to many the face of the charity, died in...

The Taxi Charity has very special memories of the kindness and warmth Prince Philip showed veterans at their event in Worthing in 1979....

The Taxi Charity was sad to hear that WWII veteran, Geoff Pulzer, a much-loved member of the Taxi Charity family, died on 2 March 2021 in...

The Taxi Charity was saddened to hear that WWII veteran Eric Alexander Taylor BEM from Helston in Cornwall passed away on 21 February...

The Taxi Charity was saddened to hear that WWII veteran, Ernest John Sleep, died at his home on 18 February 2021 Born in 1921, Ernest...

The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans was saddened to hear of the death of WWII veteran Fred Faulkner, on Sunday 10 January 2021. Fred...

The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans was saddened to hear of the death of WWII veteran Albert (Bert) Holmshaw on Monday 11 January...

Hector Hugh McDonald Duff OBE, BEM, MM, TH, husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, WWII veteran and retired police sergeant,...