187 items found for "normandy"
- D-Day 75th anniversary: London veterans look back, onlondon.co.uk
A taxi drivers' charity has maintained a long tradition of marking the push to Normandy by JOSHUA NEICHO Forrester, an ex-light infantryman with the King’s Royal Rifles Corps who took part in the push from Normandy for a charity taking 38 servicemen and women, mainly Londoners, for a week of commemoration events in Normandy collections by veterans at railway stations and organising visits to important wartime sites, including Normandy Source: www.onlondon.co.uk/d-day-75th-anniversary-london-veterans-look-back/ #onlondon #normandy #dday75
- 75th Anniversary D-Day, The Cab Driver
#TheCabDriver #Normandy #DDay
- The Taxi Charity prepares for the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Ouest France
The story of the Taxi Charity's D-Day 75 planning trip made the papers in Normandy! The Taxi Charity, a British charity formed in 1948, is in Normandy to prepare for D-Day... #DDay75 #OuestFrance #Normandy
- Press Release: Veterans to visit Normandy to remember the most memorable wartime operation ever plan
In June this year, twenty-five veterans will be visiting Normandy, courtesy of the Taxi Charity, to remember Darlings on 28 May, an amazing group of nonagenarians will be visiting the scene of The D-Day Landings in Normandy veterans have forged many friendships on the various trips that the Taxi Charity arranges but this Normandy On the journey over to Normandy the ferry will slow down allowing the veterans to say a prayer and cast The trip to Normandy has a packed itinerary including: a visit to the Memorial Pegasus Museum Pegasus
- "Thank you for giving my dad a wonderful trip to Normandy" - Ann Baird
Thank you for giving my dad a wonderful trip to Normandy which would not have been possible any other
- Official photos from our Back To The Beaches veterans' trip to Normandy
We were very fortunate to have Jo Ward taking photos of our Back To The Beaches veterans' trip to Normandy #BackToTheBeaches #JoWardPhotography #Normandy2017
- London Cabbies Take D-Day Veterans Back To Normandy, Forces Network
Almost 100 D-Day veterans have been back on the beaches of Normandy to remember fallen comrades thanks Source: forces.net/news/london-cabbies-take-d-day-veterans-back-normandy #BackToTheBeaches #ForcesNetwork #Normandy2017
- The Soldiers’ Charity supports ‘Back To The Beaches’ with the Taxi Charity
They span from day trips around Britain to historical spots throughout Europe such as: Normandy, Dunkirk Soldiers’ Charity provided a grant of £12,000 towards the Taxi Charity’s ‘Back to the Beaches’ trip in Normandy This enabled 98 World War Two veterans, the oldest being 99 years old, to go on a four-day trip to Normandy www.soldierscharity.org/soldiers-charity-supports-back-beaches-taxi-charity #ABFTheSoldiersCharity #Normandy
- West Way Nissan donates support vehicles for our Back To The Beaches trip to Normandy
vehicles for our medical team and convoy escorts to use during our Back To The Beaches veterans' trip to Normandy
- 'My Memory' - a watercolour by war veteran, Bill Gladden
During our trip to Normandy in June of this year, Bill presented the Mayor of Ranville with a framed Bill was a trooper with the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment and whilst in Normandy rode #BillGladden #MyMemory #Normandy #6thAirborneArmouredReconnaissanceRegiment
- Our Sponsors: Back To The Beaches 2017
We thank each and every one of our sponsors for their support of our Back To The Beaches trip to Normandy The Earl of Westmorland Mr & Mrs Alec Wilkinson Josh Wood Ateliers, Hair & Beauty #BackToTheBeaches #Normandy #Normandy2017
- Taxi Charity appears on London Live ahead of its veterans' trip to Normandy in June
February 2017, the Taxi Charity held the official London launch of its #backtothebeaches veterans' trip to Normandy
- A Poem: The Old Soldier
Beaches trip now seems worthwhile as we have 97 WWII veterans ready to depart in 87 London taxis to Normandy #BackToTheBeaches #Légiondhonneur #MajorPeterWatsonMC #Normandy
- "I am just writing to say a big thank you for helping and looking after all our WWII veterans&
big thank you for helping and looking after all our WWII veterans, especially the lads who went to Normandy Regards and many thanks, Roger Micklethwaite #RogerMicklethwaite #Normandy #PegasusBridge #MervilleGunBattery
- Taxi Charity takes seven veterans to Normandy to recce June 2017 trip
The Taxi Charity has organised a four day planning trip to Normandy ahead of its veterans' trip next #Normandy2017 #GeoffPattinson #FredGlover #BillGladden #FrankPendergast #RoyMaxwell #HarryBailey #PeterKent
- Normandy Veterans Reunion, Duxford - 8 October 2015
Date for your diary. #EventsDiary
- Taxi Charity to attend 71st anniversary of Normandy landings
veterans and committee members will be attending commemoration services for the 71st anniversary of the Normandy in Arromanches, meeting up with James Corrigan (Durham Light Infantry) and the Surrey branch of the Normandy Click here for more information about D-Day commemorations in Normandy: www.dday-overlord.com/eng/commemorations_normandy _2015.htm #Normandylandings #VicMcKenzie #CharlieJefferies #DickieForrester #GeorgeStagg
- Obituary: WWII Naval veteran Len Hobbs
Len was an active participant in Normandy reunions and a supporter of the Spirit of Normandy Trust. the beaches with old comrades – including a trip only last autumn to see the magnificent new British Normandy Richard Palusinski, Chairman of the Spirit of Normandy Trust, said: "It is with sadness that we record the loss of another veteran of D-Day and the Normandy landings. with the Normandy Veterans Association and, more recently, with the Spirit of Normandy Trust.
