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- The Royal British Legion offers thanks to the Taxi Charity for transporting veterans on VJ Day
British Legion, I would like to thank you and all your colleagues for providing the transportation of many
- Taxi Charity committee members accompany veterans to 73rd anniversary of Dieppe Raid
Many Canadian students also attended from the Canadian sites on the Somme where they have a student program and many students from Canada work at the sites as tour guides.
- Press Release: WWII veterans pay their respects at an emotional ceremony
The highlight of the trip was a service at the Menin Gate memorial (Wednesday 11 May) where the last Honorary Chairman, Gary Belsey added: "We've had an amazing and emotional pilgrimage to honour those
- Taxi Charity presented with shield by The Glider Pilot Regiment Association
The shield was presented to Taxi Charity Chairman, Gary Belsey, by former glider pilot, Frank Ashleigh In the photo: Laurie Weeden (GP), Bernard Osborne (GP), Gary Belsey (TC), Graham Pike (TC), Eddie Hillery
- Taxi Charity and veterans attend unveiling of a memorial to Albert McKenzie VC
Members of the Taxi Charity committee and many of our veterans attended the unveiling of a memorial to
- Taxi Charity in the press: News Shopper, 14 December 2015
The Taxi Charity relies on black cab drivers to provide their taxis and time for free, as many recently
- Meet the London cabbies taking war veterans on tailormade trips, The Telegraph
Many were wounded in action during the Second World War, but need little persuasion to join the knees-up Fred gave him some morphine, a small act of kindness he believes may have saved his life. But a word in someone’s ear from the wounded German meant that, instead, he was taken to hospital in Paris
- Fast Eddie's Blog: Liberators Diary - 5 May 2015 (Day 4)
Many walked around the parade area with much to see. On behalf of the Taxi Charity and the veterans, many thanks to the legion. presented with an engraved hip flask as a token of the charity's appreciation of all their hard work over many Afterwards, many of the veterans gathered in the bar and a real sing song session got underway. Many of the lads gave us a song and yours truly sung myself to a standstill.
- Fred and Ted parachute into the Merville Battery 72 years after D-Day, Mature Times
act of kindness, offering morphine to one of the injured soldiers who had been shot in the stomach, may I’ve been going for so many years now that some of the toddlers I’ve met are now grown up with families
- Press Release: Fred and Ted parachute into the Merville Battery 72 years after D-Day
act of kindness, offering morphine to one of the injured soldiers who had been shot in the stomach, may I’ve been going for so many years now that some of the toddlers I’ve met are now grown up with families
- Taxi Charity attends Beating Retreat at Headley Court
charity's patrons, Vice Admiral Sir Adrian Johns and Lady Suzie Johns, and the charity's chairman, Gary Today, Beating Retreat is an evening military marching display which marks the lowering of the flag at there was a flypast by a Chinook helicopter and music was provided by the band of her Majesty’s Royal Marines
- Fast Eddie's Blog: January 2016 Update
During January, the committee was busy giving serious consideration to where and what we may be doing It has been suggested that we make a pilgrimage trip to the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium in mid May. set sail at 12:15 pm from Cleopatra’s Needle and headed east downstream towards Canary Wharf, passing many
- Guest Blog: All singing, all dancing WW2 veterans delight the public at the Chalke Valley History Fe
So… many months of planning later, there we all were. It may be going too far to say that it is largely down to the effort, energy and commitment of the charity Many of the veterans have told me that it is precisely these kinds of experiences that keep them young Long may it all continue!
- Fast Eddie's Blog: Liberators Diary - 4 May 2015 (Day 3)
Looking around at our veterans gathered together amid the rows of neatly tended graves, I saw many wistful Following lunch, our veterans took the opportunity of looking around the museum exhibits and met many together with two of our Parachute Regiment veterans, moved forward to lay our tributes alongside those of many
- Taxi Charity in the press: Evening Standard, 15 August 2015
direct war heroes to the taxi ranks where they would be given a free ride to the VJ Day celebrations - marking Eighty London taxi drivers gave up a weekend in May to take heroes on the "emotional" pilgrimage. Royal Marine buglers and percussionists from Portsmouth piled up their drums to form a ceremonial altar He read: "To the soldiers of many races who, in the comradeship of the 14th Army, did go on, and to the Actor Charles Dance read Rudyard Kipling's 'Mandalay' - a favourite marching tune for many in the 14th
- Taxi Charity in the press: Evening Standard - 6 May 2015
The Evening Standard ran a story about our veterans' trip to Arnhem (2-6 May 2015). trip to Arnhem Taxi Charity organises emotional trip for WW2 war heroes RAMZY ALWAKEEL Published: 06 May In all, about 120 veterans were taken to the Netherlands to mark the 70th anniversary of the battle. September saw the 70th anniversary of the first Battle of Arnhem, which saw heavy Allied losses, including many Mr Goodwin said many of the veterans on their books had become firm friends with the cab drivers who
- Endorsement: Field Marshal the Lord Guthrie GCB, LVO, OBE, DL
You are doing something which really will make a difference to many people in need.
- Endorsement: Frederick Forsyth CBE
They met many obstacles and took casualties but of them it can also be said they never gave up.
- Taxi Charity Press Release: London’s cabbies honour VJ vets on Saturday 15 August
I'm told there may be some of my ship’s company attending the day, it would be great if I could meet committee member Dennis Hayes said: “The veterans who fought in the Far East and Pacific campaigns, in many
- Fast Eddie's Blog: Collections Update
First many thanks, yet again, to our team of collectors.