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WWII veteran, Bill Lawson, from Ilminster turns 100 today! BBC Radio Somerset decided to surprise Bill on air with a chat to his two sons Eric and Ken also on the Click here to listen to Bill on BBC Sounds.

Veteran Bill Lawson from Ilminster in Somerset is celebrating his 100th birthday On 31 December 2020, Bill Lawson will be celebrating his 100th birthday - but not quite in the way he might have planned, Jennie Flory, a friend of Bill's said: "Bill really enjoys life. An RAF veteran who served in Africa, Bill joined the Taxi Charity trip to Berlin with his son Eric in When Bill left the RAF he went back to his job in local government.

performed at our events before and it was great to see him joined on stage by a D-Day veteran, 99-year-old Bill Gladden, who loves to sing songs from the period.

Gladden, for his milestone birthday. What a wonderful age, how was Bill’s party? Do you know Bill well? Colin: We all do! What is Bill’s D-Day story? How significant are the trips to Normandy for Bill?

35lb British Army ‘bergen’ rucksacks in seven hours 45 minutes as part of their fundraising ‘Market Garden Seb said: “We set ourselves this Market Garden Challenge to raise much needed funds for the Taxi Charity bikes from Joe’s Bridge (no 9) on the Bocholt-Herentals Canal on the Belgian border to replicate the 'Garden With us was Arnhem veteran Bill Larder who had not journeyed back to the Netherlands since WWII. WWII veterans receive from the Dutch people is always overwhelming and on his first post-war visit, Bill

Amongst our group of D-Day veterans were Peter Smoothy, who was on a Tank Landing Ship on Juno Beach, Bill Gladden who flew into Ranville in a glider, No4 Commando 100-year-old Roy Maxwell who landed on Sword

Dick: We are hoping that WWII veterans, Ray Whitwell, Tom Schaffer, Dickie Forrester, Bill Gladden and

D-Day veteran, Bill Gladden, supports the Taxi Charity through his lifelong love of painting Bill Gladden For many years, 96-year-old Bill has used his love of painting to raise funds for the charity that means Bill developed what was to be a lifelong love of painting as a child and said, “I have always loved painting Bill was in the 6th Airborne, Armoured Recce Regiment RAC and landed in Ranville on D-Day in landing Bill continued, “I work from photographs and ask that anyone who commissions me donates what they feel

Normandy veteran, Bill Gladden, who served with the 6th Airborne, Recce Regiment, said: "I flew into at Ouistreham 30 min drive to the Kyriad Prestige Hotel in Dives-Cabourg Saturday 4 June 2022 11:00 Garden to Collège Saint-Louis in Cabourg: meeting the pupils Wednesday 8 June 2022 11:00 Short ceremony at Bill

We also have Bill Gladden, the WWII veteran who paints, that you spoke with recently. Bill was shot in the ankle and spent the next three years in hospital. He was piped ashore by Bill Mullen, and we will attend a short ceremony by his good friend Bill’s statue

Pupils from College St. Louis in Cabourg have remained in contact with WWII veterans during lockdown by regularly emailing snippets of their day-to-day life via their "Lockdown Chronicles". The pupils also posted over 200 post cards and letters to the Taxi Charity, to forward onto the veterans. The special bonds between the pupils and the veterans were first formed during our Back To The Beaches trip in June 2017. The following year, the children, who were studying World War II, visited London, and we arranged a meeting at the Imperial War Museum, for them to hear the veterans recount their wartime experiences. In March 2019, we took three veterans to Cabourg to participate in Q&A sessions with the College St. Louis students. And during our D-Day 75 visit in June 2019, veterans visited the pupils hugely impressive Kakemonos Exhibition, a collection of banners which portrayed the veterans’ stories. The story of the friendship between the veterans and these Normandy schoolchildren was picked up by Associated Press and appeared in a large number of news outlets and also the 8 May VE75 commemorative issue of the i newspaper. For the last three years, the Cabourg students have joined the veterans for the commemorative service at Pegasus Bridge Museum on 5 June. This year, with the help of their schoolteacher Mayeul Mace and interpreter Nathalie Varniere, they held an online ceremony instead. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, many of the veterans who travel with us each year to Normandy were able to watch the whole event and afterwards say a few words to their delighted hosts. The Taxi Charity hopes it will have sufficient funds to return as many of our remaining World War II veterans as possible to the Netherlands and France for a final visit next year. We know our Dutch and French friends will give them a warm welcome, as they always do. #CollegeSaintLouis #Cabourg

the beaches; Major Ted Hunt, who served with the Royal Engineers and commanded 15 Rhino ferries; and Bill Gladden, 6th Airborne, Recce Regiment who aged 20 flew into Normandy lying prone on the tank that was

6th June – the 75th anniversary of D-Day – and I had the honour of laying a wreath with WWII veteran Bill Gladden, during the commemoration service at Ranville Cemetery. 75 years earlier, almost to the hour , Bill and his 6th Airborne comrades landed in a Hamilcar glider in a nearby field.

Colin Mills Chairman Taxi Charity for Military Veterans Photos 2 and 3 courtesy of Arjan Vrieze and Paul Chambers, respectively Colin Mills told the Daily Express: “Gilbert represented the very best of his

Taxi Charity for Military Veterans Chairman, Colin Mills, and Volunteer, Keely Allen, share their highlights from the recent trip to Netherlands to mark the anniversary of Operation Market Garden. Colin Mills, Chairman of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans: In September 1944, the Allies launched determination and courage shown by the airborne troops and the units that assisted them made Operation Market Garden pleasure to travel to the Netherlands but the recent trip for the 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden

Volunteer drivers assisted The Not Forgotten Association at the Buckingham Palace Garden Party, providing Don Turrell’s 100th birthday in Frinton, Essex, and attended the 100th birthday of Operation Market Garden August August included a trip to Scotland with veterans revisiting locations filled with wartime memories Later in the month, we attended the anniversary of Operation Market Garden in Arnhem and visited the Colin Mills Chairman Taxi Charity for Military Veterans

last day of the Taxi Charity's planning trip for D-Day 75, veterans Frank Pendergast, Fred Glover and Bill Gladden visited Collège Saint-Louis in Cabourg for a Q&A. Frank, Fred and Bill answered questions from two classes and went down a storm with the teenagers.

Sadly, WWII veteran Laurie (Lol) Martin, Airborne Signals, who was involved in Operation Market Garden Veteran, Bill Parr (88), from Hackney, one of the charity’s fundraising collection team, said: "Being Bill contracted Covid in December last year and is now in a long period of recovery to get back to his

The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans was delighted to take Flt Lt Colin Bell DFC to the Aero Legends You can buy Colin Bell’s Bloody Dangerous here: www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/colin-bell/bloody-dangerous

On 28 May, the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans escorted a group of veterans to the Biggin Hill Heritage Just before 11am, Colin Mills, the chairman of the Taxi Charity, welcomed the veterans and thanked the team at Biggin Hill for inviting the charity to their hangar, which houses 13 Spitfires. Chairman Colin Mills said: "Everyone had a wonderful day. About the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar The Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar is a Spitfire flight and restoration