227 items found for "normandy"
- Taxi Charity hosts London black cab drivers boxing night: Boxing For The Pride Of London
Seated behind the ring and cheering along with the rest were four Chelsea Pensioners and one Normandy
- Taxi Charity feature in January issue of The People's Friend
“The next big trip is back to the beaches of Normandy, which is planned for June, for the anniversary “We’ll need ninety for the upcoming Normandy trip, but we also do an annual day out to Worthing, which George took part in the Normandy landings and Sylvia was a Land Girl.
- Keston pub to host 1940s event to help WWII veterans return to site of D-Day landings, Bromley Times
Members of the public are being invited to a 1940s-themed party to help World War II veterans return to Normandy
- Taxi Charity invited to Castle Rock Brewery in Nottingham
brewing a special edition of their Harvest Pale in support of our #backtothebeaches veterans trip to Normandy
- Convoy of 90 Black cabs ferries veterans to Pegasus Bridge for the final time to commemorate the 73r
Holding the crossings would stop Nazi tanks reaching the Normandy beaches, in code-named Sword, Gold,
- Fred and Ted parachute into the Merville Battery 72 years after D-Day, Mature Times
Fred has revisited Normandy and the Merville Battery a number of times with the Taxi Charity and other returning to visit the area since the 50th anniversary of D-Day in 1994 and I have lots of friends in Normandy members Frances Luczyc Wyhowska and Graham Pike to raise money for next year’s Taxi Charity D-Day trip to Normandy We are aiming to take up to 150 veterans and more than 80 black cabs to Normandy for four nights.
- Press Release: Fred and Ted parachute into the Merville Battery 72 years after D-Day
Fred has revisited Normandy and the Merville Battery a number of times with the Taxi Charity and other returning to visit the area since the 50th anniversary of D-Day in 1994 and I have lots of friends in Normandy members Frances Luczyc Wyhowska and Graham Pike to raise money for next year’s Taxi Charity D-Day trip to Normandy We are aiming to take up to 150 veterans and more than 80 black cabs to Normandy for four nights.
- A song from late war veteran Jim, Blackpool Gazette
The ex-Royal Marine took part in the first wave of landings in Normandy in 1944 when his small assault He regularly returned to Normandy to mark the anniversary of the D-Day landings including the 70th anniversary
- Peter Kent and Harry Bailey receive the Légion d'Honneur from the Mayor of Arromanches
Earlier this week, the Taxi Charity escorted seven war veterans to Normandy for a planning recce for
- WWII veterans invited on final trip back to the beaches
making plans to transport hundreds of World War II veterans on a final trip back to the beaches of Normandy support the #backtothebeaches trip, visit the website: www.taxicharity.org/donations #BackToTheBeaches #Normandy2017
- WWII veterans sing to celebrate Forces’ Sweetheart’s 100th birthday
To donate to support this year’s Back to the Beaches of Normandy trip in June, please click here.
- Meet the London cabbies taking war veterans on tailormade trips, The Telegraph
part of a charity whose mission is to take veterans on outings as far afield as the battlefields of Normandy The money will go towards next year’s trip to Normandy, when 90 cabbies will take 150 veterans on a four-day Parachute Battalion, he was one of the 600 men tasked with taking out the gun battery at Merville, Normandy
- Press Release: WWII veterans make a final D-Day trip back to the beaches
cabs are transporting heroes of World War II on the trip of a lifetime, back to the battlegrounds of Normandy #BackToTheBeaches #Normandy2017
- 400 veteran servicemen stop off for elevenses at South Holmwood, Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser
He was at the D-Day landings at Normandy – which took place 60 years ago this month – and was held as "I returned to Normandy last week and I met a bloke who turned out to be my company's commander," he
- Deux vétérans de 90 ans sautent en parachute pour la bonne cause, Europe 1
aéroportées britanniques, dépêchés pendant le D-Day, le jour du Débarquement en 1944 sur les côtes normandes Pieri are two former members of the British airborne divisions dispatched during D-Day, the day of the Normandy
- Q&A with Taxi Charity Chairman, TAXI
On 14th May last year, just under three weeks before we travelled to Normandy to commemorate the 75th
- National Lottery Press Release: 75 Years of London Love: A wonderful World War II Story
(Fast forward to 02:48:40) They are both war veterans – George took part in the D-Day Normandy Landings
- Press Release: Taxi Charity voted UK's best voluntary/ charity project in the National Lottery A
Charity/ Voluntary category and plans to put the £3,000 cash prize towards next year's veterans' trip to Normandy
- 100th skydive for Chelsea Pensioner along with WWII veterans, Fred and Ted
for Editors About Fred Glover Read a full account of Fred’s D-Day memories at www.pegasusarchive.org/normandy
- Taxi Charity accompanies war veteran to Arromanches to visit Mulberry Harbour
The Mulberry Harbour at Arromanches was one of two portable harbours towed over to Normandy in sections