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A trio of veterans visit school in Cabourg
On Thursday 7 March, on the last day of the Taxi Charity's planning trip for D-Day 75, veterans Frank Pendergast, Fred Glover and Bill...
Mar 18, 2019
Forces TV video report of our Back To The Beaches trip shown on Remembrance Sunday
In case you missed it, here's the wonderful video report by Forces News, filmed when they covered our Back To The Beaches trip to France...
Nov 13, 2017
Photo Gallery: Veterans jump for Taxi Charity
On Thursday 10 August 2017, war veterans Ted Pieri, Fred Glover and Dick Carpenter (all 91), undertook tandem skydives with the Red...
Aug 14, 2017
Fantastic press coverage for our veterans' fundraising skydive with the Red Devils on 10 August
A huge thank you to all the journalists and photographers that came along to report on Chelsea Pensioner, Mike Smith (68), and WWII...
Aug 11, 2017
100th skydive for Chelsea Pensioner along with WWII veterans, Fred and Ted
Chelsea Pensioner Mike Smith (68) will be swapping his scarlet uniform for a red jumpsuit when he joins two WWII heroes on a charity...
Aug 8, 2017
WWII veterans invited on final trip back to the beaches
Kind-hearted drivers of London’s iconic black cabs are making plans to transport hundreds of World War II veterans on a final trip back...
Jan 25, 2017
Fast Eddie's Blog: September 2016 Update
Hello again all you taxi troopers! Fast Eddie, your vice president, reporting in with a round-up of events over the last six months. At...
Sep 15, 2016
Press Release: Taxi Charity stars on BBC One at National Lottery Award ceremony
WWII veterans Fred Glover and Geoff Pattinson and volunteer committee members from the London Taxi Benevolent Association for War...
Sep 13, 2016
Meet the London cabbies taking war veterans on tailormade trips, The Telegraph
It is time for celebration at the Royal Chelsea Hospital. Wartime classics float around a handsome, wood-panelled room, as three smiling...
Sep 1, 2016
London's war heroes and taxi drivers named UK's best voluntary/charity project, Lottery Good
Strictly star Katie Derham was taken for a spin as she presented them with their National Lottery Awards trophy The London Taxi...
Aug 26, 2016
Two 90-year-old World War II veterans parachute into field where one was shot down 72 years ago, Peo
More than 70 years ago, Fred Glover was a member of the British Airborne Division in World War II when his glider was hit by...
Aug 26, 2016
Pair of 90-year-old D-Day veterans make tandem parachute jump for charity - five days after jumping
Two 90-year-old D-Day veterans made their second tandem parachute jump in just five days - with one landing on the battlefield he was...
Aug 26, 2016
WW2 veterans prove you're never too old to skydive, Forces TV
Skydiving for charity is nothing unusual - but skydiving at the age of 90 is. Two second world war veterans did just that for the Taxi...
Aug 26, 2016
Second World War veterans, 90, complete tandem parachute jumps for Taxi Charity, BT
Two 90-year-old Second World War veterans made their second tandem parachute jump in just five days on Thursday, with one even landing in...
Aug 25, 2016
D-Day veterans, 90, parachute from plane into field where one was shot down 72 years ago, Evening St
Two 90-year-old Second World War veterans parachuted into a French field where one of them was shot down by the Luftwaffe 72 years ago. ...
Aug 25, 2016
Second World War veterans, 90, complete tandem parachute jumps for Taxi Charity, Belfast Telegraph
Two 90-year-old Second World War veterans made their second tandem parachute jump in just five days on Thursday, with one even landing in...
Aug 25, 2016
Deux vétérans de 90 ans sautent en parachute pour la bonne cause, Europe 1
Deux vétérans britanniques de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, âgés de 90 ans, ont sauté en parachute samedi dans le Calvados pour récolter...
Aug 21, 2016
Fred and Ted parachute into the Merville Battery 72 years after D-Day, Mature Times
It was a strategic operation that didn’t go to plan and has taken has taken on a legendary quality in the retelling of the history of...
Aug 18, 2016
Press Release: Fred and Ted parachute into the Merville Battery 72 years after D-Day
It was a strategic operation that didn’t go to plan and has taken has taken on a legendary quality in the retelling of the history of...
Aug 17, 2016
Press Release: Veterans and committee members to skydive for the Taxi Charity
Two WWII veterans, Ted Pieri and Fred Glover (both aged 90), are undertaking a pair of tandem skydives to raise funds for the Taxi...
Aug 1, 2016
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