TAXI CHARITY FOR MILITARY VETERANS

On leaving the forces, Roland settled back into civilian life when he met and married his wife, Joan, in the 1950s and 1960s before moving to Banbury where he worked for a local firm for many years. He married Joan in 1949 and they had three children – Laura, Malcolm and Jackie. He also loved Scottish country dancing, astonishing those who knew him with his energy in dancing 2 - He will be sorely missed by his family and his many friends.

In another five years, how many veterans will be alive to remember it?

this huge milestone, when the country has the coronation of King Charles III to look forward to on 6th May well as our trips to Worthing and Normandy, we now also take veterans to the Netherlands and arrange many And people may not know that we often help get veterans to hospital appointments or the airport. Cab driver Colin Mills is doing a sponsored 135km walk along Hadrian’s Wall in May, and Taxi Charity

Gary Belsey, Chairman of the Taxi Charity, says: "The Taxi Charity was formed 70 years ago by London's

Seb: The commitment is 27 days a year and as an Army Reservist you may be required to serve full time thought that I might train as a chef but when I discovered during the tests that I was fitter than many

In the week after their appearance on Britain’s Got Talent supporting The D-Day Darlings on 28 May, an The WWII veterans have forged many friendships on the various trips that the Taxi Charity arranges but

My wife Anne and I will be joining many other Taxi Charity volunteers to raise a toast to this great

Originally from Croydon, Roy was a London cab driver and Blue Badge guide for many years. bugler in the army cadets and caught the train from East Croydon to Victoria to join the celebrations to mark

The charity arranges many trips every year for veterans from all conflicts, offering international trips

Many of the military personnel involved have experienced service-related wounds and injuries or suffer

on 20 March 2020, no one could have predicted that a year later the country would still be facing so many friends in the Netherlands last March, who could have known that our annual trips with veterans to mark D-Day in Normandy in June and to mark the Dutch Liberation and the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands Day socially distanced in our own homes instead of being able to bring our WWII veterans together to mark

When the Taxi Charity organised its first trip to the Netherlands in May 2012, we could not have imagined And we have visited every year since: each May for Dutch Liberation and again in early September for Last year we also attended commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem. timely arrival, as they came at the time when veterans found themselves stuck at home, resulting in many

Over the years, Fred was involved with many of our trips and outings, and was mentioned frequently in for clemency and instead Fred was taken as a prisoner of war to Hopital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris

farewell to Davie Mowatt, 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, whose funeral service was held at Saint Mary Davie was liberated in the port of Luébeck, by a unit from his own regiment, the Seaforths, on 10 May

Following D-Day, Len advanced through Europe finally reaching Denmark in May 1945. “He had an immense knowledge of aircraft and tactics and always had so many stories about his time in

For many years I have joined the charity on trips to the continent to pay my respects to the comrades

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such a rewarding charity to be part of and I love hearing their stories and I’m very happy to now call many Seb: It was very different to trips in France where all the WWII sites in Normandy are marked with huge

The cinema was full, the audience diverse - people from nearby as well as many who had travelled from Many of the veterans who ‘star’ in the film were present during the screening. “What was wonderful about the event was that it brought together many different generations and people from many different walks of life,” said Janet Hodgson.

We have been talking to our veterans about how they will mark Remembrance Sunday this year, as the usual Vic Needham-Crofton, 87, from Greenford, would normally mark Remembrance Sunday in London at the Cenotaph Vic spent twelve weeks in hospital in Nairobi with a fractured skull and many cuts and bruises but was