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

Where do they get the energy?': Daredevil war veterans, all over 90, take flight thanks to Erith man's donation An 89-year-old daredevil from Erith, who most recently jumped out of a plane in September, is helping ten fellow war veterans, all in their nineties, take flight. Ted Pieri donated £1,700 to the Taxi Charity after his recent jump with the Red Devils - some 70 years after he first gained his wings. Thanks to the grandad's fundraising efforts, ten fellow adrenaline ju

An 89 year-old World War II veteran who undertook a charity parachute jump has raised money to help other veterans take flight. Edward ‘Ted' Pieri, who turns 90 next May, donated £1700 to the Taxi Charity after jumping from a plane with the Red Devils, 70 years after first gaining his wings. The grandfather's fundraising efforts will enable the charity, also known as The London Taxi Benevolent Association For War Disabled, to host a gliding day next year for 10 veterans whose

89-year-old Erith war veteran raises £1700 for Taxi Charity after parachute jump Edward ‘Ted’ Pieri, who turns 90 next May, jumped from a plane with the Red Devils, 70 years after first gaining his wings A war veteran from Erith has taken part in a charity parachute jump to raise money to help other veterans take flight. Edward ‘Ted’ Pieri, who turns 90 next May, donated £1700 to the London Taxi Benevolent Association For War Disabled charity after jumping from a plane with t

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An 89 year-old World War 2 veteran has undertaken a parachute jump for charity, 70 years after first gaining his wings. Edward ‘Ted' Pieri, who turns 90 next May, last leapt from a plane in 1944 with the 250 Light Composite Company 1st Airborne. Now he has fulfilled his ambition to jump from a plane again with the Red Devils. "I have been wanting to do a parachute jump again for some time now. Ideally I would have liked to jump on my own as I had done during the war, however

An 89 year-old war veteran is raising money for the London Taxi Benevolent Association For War Disabled - also known as the Taxi Charity - by plunging thousands of feet out of a plane. Edward ‘Ted’ Pieri, who turns 90 next May, from Erith near Dartford, gained his wings in 1944 with the 250 Light Composite Company 1st Airborne division but has not done a parachute jump for 70 years. Now the opportunity to do a tandem jump with the Red Devils has inspired Ted to take the leap.