TAXI CHARITY FOR MILITARY VETERANS

have received a donation of £10,000 from the Wates Foundation towards the cost of our 2024 trip to Normandy Wates Foundation are delighted to be supporting the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans’ 2024 trip to Normandy Joining our volunteer cab drivers for the 80th anniversary D-Day commemorations next year in Normandy

Beaches trip now seems worthwhile as we have 97 WWII veterans ready to depart in 87 London taxis to Normandy #BackToTheBeaches #Légiondhonneur #MajorPeterWatsonMC #Normandy

Thanks to the determination of the charity, I was presented with my Légion d’Honneur in Normandy in 2019 This year I will be fortunate to be going to Normandy and the Netherlands with the Taxi Charity, and

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.

During our recent visit to Normandy in June for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we were joined for lunch

After a successful visit to Normandy for the 80th D-Day commemorations, some members of the Taxi Charity We arrived back in Portsmouth on the evening of 8th June from our trip to Normandy for the 80th anniversary D-Day, when they brought together descendants of the Supreme Commanders who led the Allied invasion of Normandy

June 1944, Peter Smoothy was one of the 156,000 allied servicemen that took part in the invasion of Normandy In June 2024, Peter visited Normandy with the Taxic Charity for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. has been part of the Taxi Charity family for many years, joining us on trips to the Netherlands and Normandy

100-year-old WWII veteran, William ‘Bill’ Gladden, who flew into Normandy on D-Day, died at home in Haverhill for airborne duties and formed part of the 6th Airborne Reconnaissance Regiment who took part in the Normandy On 6 June 1944, aged 20, Bill flew into Normandy in a Hamilcar glider carrying a tank and six motorbikes Bill was a regular on trips with the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans to Normandy and the Netherlands

He says the trips he's been on with WWII veterans to places like Normandy and Arnhem will live with him

smock that he wore that day to do the jump and will then present the smock to the Pegasus Museum in Normandy other veterans, and he wants to ensure that all those veterans wishing to make the journey back to Normandy he raises from the jump will be split equally between the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans and the Normandy

campaign launched by the Taxi Charity in June to find the young girl Reg had shared his food with in Normandy He landed on Sword beach on D-Day plus 14 and one night as he moved through Normandy, his convoy was During the annual Taxi Charity trip to Normandy in June 2022, volunteer taxi driver Paul Cook heard the French advisor, Nathalie Varnière, Huguette was finally found and earlier this month Reg travelled to Normandy I went back to Normandy about 50 years afterwards to try and trace her but unfortunately I wasn’t successful

Brian Heffernan, the Taxi Charity chairman, Morson has donated to help towards the 2023 trip to the Normandy For many years they have been taking veterans to Normandy to the D-Day commemorations so that they can WWII veteran Marie Scott from Surrey said: “Our trip to Normandy was, once again, not only highly enjoyable

D-Day weekend at the National Memorial Arboretum to witness the opening of the British Memorial in Normandy The East Riding Yeomanry was part of 27th Armoured Brigade for the Normandy Landings and the advance Andrew Wright, Normandy Veterans, said: "I first met Alan when he joined the Norwich branch of the Normandy I was fortunate to return with Alan to Cambes en Plaine war cemetery in Normandy where Corporal Louis piece of Suffolk and enjoyed Southwold but didn't wish to enter the sea because of his memories of Normandy

Bill was 20 years old when he flew into Normandy on a military glider with a tank and six motorbikes family, friends and people from the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans – who have taken Bill back to Normandy

We have received this Christmas message from WWII veteran Reg Pye, who joined us in Normandy in June sandwich to on a difficult day where we hadn't eaten, were tired and just arrived at a small village in Normandy Paul was busy that weekend so Josie mentioned it to a friend and without hesitation she came from Normandy Normandy veteran Reggie Pye Royal Engineers 224 Field Company 8th Corps xxx

WWII Normandy veteran, Roy ‘Smudger’ Smith, from Sittingbourne in Kent died in hospital on Friday 23 Roy was a Bren gunner and moved through Normandy and into the Netherlands where he was taken Prisoner This year, Roy travelled to the Netherlands in May for Dutch Liberation and to Normandy in June for the During the Taxi Charity visit to Normandy, Roy had shared that he had always felt guilty that he had I have taken him to many events in recent years, but when he came back from your trip to Normandy, I

In that time, he has been on trips to Normandy and the Netherlands, and to events across the southeast

unrestricted grant from the Veterans' Foundation which will be used to help with the costs of the trip to Normandy , and knowing that we have received this funding which we will use towards the costs of our trip to Normandy

Then, a few years later in 1994, the charity organised a four-day commemorative trip to the Normandy For that trip to Normandy, 75 London taxi drivers were given the honour of assembling on Horse Guards Parade with 150 Normandy veterans. As well as our trips to Worthing and Normandy, we now also take veterans to the Netherlands and arrange Brian: As well as trips to the Netherlands to commemorate Dutch Liberation and to Normandy for the D-Day

Unfortunately, just like the plans for the Normandy invasion were thwarted by the weather, so too were The Taxi Charity will be taking a group of veterans to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.