214 items found for "normandy"
- Taxi Charity and its veterans featured in History of War magazine
Journalist Tim Williamson went to Normandy at the beginning of June for D-Day and met a lot of the Taxi A big thank you to Fran Lambert who works at the Normandy Tourist Board for sending us the press clippings photo of Fran, Tim Williamson and veteran Peter Appleby along with a few other photos: twitter.com/NormandyPRUK /status/871727590947659776 #HistoryofWarMagazine #TimWilliamson #FranLambert #NormandyTouristBoard
- Coronavirus and war by Ian Parsons
, who worked as a switchboard operator in Fort Southwick relaying messages to the commanders on the Normandy
- Veterans attend Not Forgotten centenary event, TAXI
Charity since 2017, when I went on my first trip as one of 90 black cabs which took 250 veterans to the Normandy
- War veteran receives letters of thanks from European children and mayors, Isle of Man Courier
Mr Duff, who fought on Normandy beaches on D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion in history on June 6,
- WWII veteran celebrates his 100th birthday in lockdown
Don is a Freeman of the City of Basildon and was the Chairman of the Normandy Veterans Association -
- TAXI chats to Brian Heffernan, the new chairman of the Taxi Charity For Military Veterans
I’ve been fortunate to travel to Normandy and The Netherlands on many occasions, to take veterans back
- The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans’ work, City Matters
For our week-long visit to Normandy in June, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day Landings
- Guest Blog: Susy Goodwin jumps for the Taxi Charity
I thought of all those young men at Normandy, Arnhem and Italy who had jumped with only one ‘chute to Between them veterans of Normandy, Arnhem and Italy. I was in excellent company.
- Honouring the fallen, OnRoute Magazine
First up, on the 6 June, 25 veterans visited Normandy to remember the part they played during the D-Day
- The 76th anniversary of VJ Day: Two veterans share their stories
hadn’t seen him or heard from him for a long time and had no idea that they had both been at D-Day in Normandy
- The Taxi Charity reflects on the past 12 months
the Netherlands last March, who could have known that our annual trips with veterans to mark D-Day in Normandy
- Taxi Charity says goodbye to WWII veteran Frank Pendergast with a guard of honour at his funeral
The battalion he was to join held the canal and river bridges at Ranville and Benouville in Normandy
- Back to the beaches, OnRoute magazine
Our Back To The Beaches veterans trip to Normandy featured on page 5 of the July issue of Transport for
- Fort Southwick switchboard operator Marie Scott awarded the prestigious Legion Of Honour
This summer, Marie Scott will travel with the Taxi Charity to Normandy with a group of 30 WWII veterans
- "Your taxi drivers were very efficient and always friendly with a real sense of humour" -
Liz and I are now back home in King’s Lynn, resting after our very busy but very memorable visit to Normandy I must mention our first day in Normandy - the morning at Pegasus Centre - when the sun shone the whole
- 101-year-old former Queen’s Bargemaster recalls joking with duke
Major Ted Hunt, who commanded landing craft onto Gold Beach in Normandy in June 1944, spent 12 years
- Veterans enjoy lunch at The RAF Club
their part in D-Day: Marie Scott who sent messages to and from the beaches; Bill Gladden who flew into Normandy
- Remembrance Sunday: We will remember them
"During my annual visits with the Taxi Charity to Normandy and Arnhem we are fortunate to meet lots of
- In conversation with London cabbie Graham Pike, TAXI
Our annual trips to the Netherlands and Normandy for veterans to pay their respects to those who didn
- Taxi Charity bids WWII veteran Fred Glover a final farewell
automatic weapons, grenades and the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife, Fred flew from RAF Brize Norton into Normandy