News & Updates

Nov 27

Obituary: Raymond ‘Ray’ Whitwell (17 March 1919 - 20 November 2024)

WWII Dunkirk and Market Garden veteran Ray Whitwell died on Wednesday 20 November; he was 105. During WWII, war took Ray...

Nov 12, 2022

Ray Whitwell: 'I was lucky, I got missed all the time', BBC

Raymond Whitwell, from Malton in North Yorkshire, was born in 1919 and conscripted into the Royal Army Service Corps in late 1939. He was...

Oct 20, 2022

El Alamein: 103-year-old veteran reflects on decisive WWII battle, ITV News

Geraint Vincent from ITV News interviews Ray Whitwell on the 80th anniversary of the decisive El-Alamein victory... Click here to watch...

Sep 23, 2022

Videos: The Taxi Charity talks with WWII veterans about their role in Operation Market Garden

September 2022 marks the 78th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in...

Sep 23, 2022

103-year-old WWII veteran commemorates Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands

The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans was delighted to take 103-year-old Arnhem veteran Ray Whitwell to the Netherlands for the...

Jun 15, 2022

The Taxi Charity goes Dutch, OnRoute Magazine

After a pause of two years, the Taxi Charity was finally able to revisit the Netherlands this March and May to plan for, and then take...

May 9, 2022

WWII veterans honoured in Dutch Liberation Parade

On 5 May 2022, 25 veterans were applauded as they led the Dutch Liberation Parade through the streets of Wageningen The veterans were...

May 3, 2022

103-year-old WWII veteran takes to the skies in the Netherlands

Veteran Ray Whitwell enjoyed a flight in a glider on 3 May over the skies of Arnhem where he fought during World War II. Ray Whitwell,...

Mar 10, 2022

WWII veteran, Ray Whitwell, celebrates his 103rd birthday

On 17 March, WWII veteran, Ray Whitwell, from Malton, North Yorkshire will be 103. He will celebrate his birthday with his daughter,...

Feb 28, 2022

Arnhem veterans return to the Netherlands

The Taxi Charity took a small group of veterans to the Netherlands over the weekend of 24 - 27 February to visit the Airborne Museum....

Sep 6, 2021

500 Not Out, TAXI!

For the five hundredth edition, TAXI spoke to five veterans whose combined age is 500 about what London cabbies mean to them. Volunteer...

Jan 19, 2021

WWII veteran Ray Whitwell talks to Taxi Charity volunteer, Seb Philp

Taxi Charity volunteer, Seb Philp, chats with WWII veteran, Ray Whitwell and Ray's daughter, Gill. Ray was in the war from start to...

Sep 13, 2020

London cabbie tours Italian battlefields

Sebastian Philp, a London cabbie from Shoreditch, has a real passion to learn all he can about WWII. This summer he decided to find out...

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