New course from BFBS Academy to get veterans into production management
Applications are now open for the 2023 BFBS Academy Production Managers Course for veterans and service leavers. This course is fully...
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News & Updates
- Dec 21, 2022
WWII veteran Harry Rawlins receives the Thank You Liberators medal at Dutch Embassy
On 13 December 2022, WWII veteran Henry ‘Harry’ Rawlins was presented with the 'Thank You Liberators' medal at a ceremony at the...
- Dec 12, 2022
A wonderful Christmas message from WWII veteran, Reg Pye
We have received this Christmas message from WWII veteran Reg Pye, who joined us in Normandy in June and has recently been in the news...
- Nov 21, 2022
WWII veteran Peter Colthup celebrates his 100th birthday
WWII Arnhem veteran Peter Colthup had a very special 100th birthday celebration when he was presented with two medals for his part in...
- Nov 17, 2022
Veteran Reg Pye finds the French girl he has been looking for since WWII
Thanks to a campaign launched by the Taxi Charity in June to find the young girl Reg had shared his food with in Normandy in 1944, they...
- Nov 16, 2022
Obituary: WWII Naval veteran Len Hobbs
WWII naval veteran, Len Hobbs, 98, died peacefully at home on Monday 31 October with his daughter Elizabeth at his side. Born on 1 August...
- Nov 13, 2022
Remembrance Day: Veteran recalls unorthodox landing in Normandy, BBC
Veteran Bill Gladden's arrival in Normandy on D-Day took an unexpected turn as he found himself spread-eagled on top of a tank being...
- Nov 13, 2022
Second World War veteran from Whitstable, recalls the horrors of battle, Kent Online
A 99-year-old war veteran has vividly recalled the moment he had to shoot dead a young German soldier, describing it as a horror which...
- Nov 12, 2022
Ray Whitwell: 'I was lucky, I got missed all the time', BBC
Raymond Whitwell, from Malton in North Yorkshire, was born in 1919 and conscripted into the Royal Army Service Corps in late 1939. He was...
- Nov 1, 2022
Respects paid to WWII veteran Danny McCrudden who has died aged 98, Charity Today
WWII veteran Danny McCrudden, 98, who served with the Royal Navy’s Pacific Fleet on the Destroyer HMS Queenborough died on 22 October...
- Oct 26, 2022
Taxi Charity attends unveiling of Desert Rats memorial
On 23 October, Taxi Charity volunteers were delighted to attend the dedication and unveiling of a Desert Rats monument at the National...
- Oct 20, 2022
El Alamein: 103-year-old veteran reflects on decisive WWII battle, ITV News
Geraint Vincent from ITV News interviews Ray Whitwell on the 80th anniversary of the decisive El-Alamein victory... Click here to watch...
- Oct 18, 2022
WWII veteran John Bosley dies aged 97
WWII veteran, John Bosley, from Warminster died on Tuesday 4 October, aged 97. Born in 1925, John enlisted in 1943 at the age of 17, and...
- Oct 17, 2022
WWII veteran John Clarke MBE dies, aged 98
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...
- Oct 4, 2022
WWII veteran Albert Wiltshire dies aged 99
WWII veteran, Albert Wiltshire, who served with Combined Operations in the Royal Navy in WWII died on 16 September at the age of 99...
- Sep 23, 2022
Videos: The Taxi Charity talks with WWII veterans about their role in Operation Market Garden
September 2022 marks the 78th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in...
- Sep 23, 2022
103-year-old WWII veteran commemorates Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands
The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans was delighted to take 103-year-old Arnhem veteran Ray Whitwell to the Netherlands for the...
- Sep 13, 2022
Guest Blog: Bill Larder - The return of a humble hero by Jan (Larder) Davis
The first time Dad went to Arnhem, he flew in on a twin-engined Dakota. This time he arrived in Harwich in an electric Tesla and was...
- Sep 5, 2022
WWII veterans and Taxi Charity volunteers joined the thousands at Wandeltocht Airborne March
On 3 September, a group of Taxi Charity volunteers who had brought seven WWII veterans and their carers and families to the Netherlands...
- Aug 7, 2022
Taxi Charity escorts WWII veterans to RNRMC event
On Tuesday 2 August, the Taxi Charity was delighted to join the Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity (RNRMC) at their 'Summer in the City'...
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