Dear all, I am just writing to say a big thank you for helping and looking after all our WWII veterans, especially the lads who went to Normandy for D Day. I was at Pegasus Bridge on the 5 June and at Merville on the 7 June and saw all the lads arrive - it was just so amazing to see them and meet some of them. Please keep up the good work! All the best to you and the boys! Regards and many thanks, Roger Micklethwaite #RogerMicklethwaite #Normandy #PegasusBridge #Merville

On Friday 24 March 2017, the Taxi Charity accompanied a delegation from Merville on a visit to Hungerford to pay their respects at the Merville Battery Memorial on Inkpen Common. The French delegation comprised the Mayor of Merville-Franceville, Olivier Paz; the Director of the Merville Battery Museum, Pascaline Dagorn; and a number of French war veterans. The British delegation included the Mayor of Hungerford, Cllr Martin Crane, and his wife Virginia; the Constable of Hunge

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 anti-aircraft fire during the 1944 Normandy landings over the Merville Battery battlefield in northwest France. Falling thousands of miles to the ground, the Brighton native crashed into a nearby orchard, sustaining wounds to his legs. Captured by German patrols, he was offered pardon and recouped from his injuries at a Parisian hospital – and later e

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. Wearing bright red jumpsuits and goggles, Fred Glover and Edward “Ted” Pieri hurtled hundreds of feet to the ground in tandem jumps at the Merville Battery in northern France on Saturday. The fortified German bunker was the site of fierce fighting during the 1944 Normandy landings – and Mr Glover’s glider came down in a nearby orchard aft

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 a battlefield where he was shot down 72 years ago. Wearing bright red jumpsuits and goggles, Fred Glover and Edward "Ted" Pieri hurtled hundreds of feet towards the ground at the Old Sarum airfield in Salisbury to raise money for the London Taxi Benevolent Association For War Disabled, also known as the Taxi Charity. Last Saturday they

Deux vétérans britanniques de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, âgés de 90 ans, ont sauté en parachute samedi dans le Calvados pour récolter des fonds. Ils ont 90 ans et n'ont pas froid aux yeux. Deux vétérans britanniques de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ont sauté en parachute sur le site de la batterie de Merville, dans le Calvados, samedi. "C'était formidable !", ont déclaré les deux acolytes à l'atterrissage à Ouest France. Frederick Glover et Ted Pieri sont deux anciens militai

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 D-Day. The capture of the Merville Battery in June 1944 was essential to the Allies’ preparation for the D-Day landings. The British 6th Airborne Division was deployed on the night of 5 June 1944 to secure the eastern sector of the five beaches with the main objective to capture the two bridges over the Orne River and the Caen Canal (now know

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 D-Day. The capture of the Merville Battery in June 1944 was essential to the Allies’ preparation for the D-Day landings. The British 6th Airborne Division was deployed on the night of 5 June 1944 to secure the eastern sector of the five beaches with the main objective to capture the two bridges over the Orne River and the Caen Canal (now kn

Two WWII veterans, Ted Pieri and Fred Glover (both aged 90), are undertaking a pair of tandem skydives to raise funds for the Taxi Charity. Their first jump will be into the Merville Battery in France on Saturday 20 August 2016; their second will be with the Red Devils in Salisbury on Thursday 25 August 2016. Both tandem jumps are to raise funds for next year’s Taxi Charity D-Day trip to Normandy. For the second jump with the Red Devils, Ted and Fred will be joined by Taxi Ch