227 items found for "normandy"
- The Taxi Charity will be delivering a little festive cheer to veterans this Christmas
With all the usual Taxi Charity events, including the visits to Normandy, the Netherlands and Worthing from families in the Netherlands and from school children who attend the St Louis Academy, Cabourg, Normandy
- The veterans return to Worthing in our iconic black cabs
Parsons, chairman of the Taxi Charity, said: "We’ve enjoyed memorable trips to the Netherlands and Normandy
- WWII veteran to help find home for dog
Military Veterans who this year have taken me and other WWII veterans to both the Netherlands and to Normandy
- Taxi Charity visits Chatham Dockyard
Peter, Norrie and John were taken back to Normandy in June by the Taxi Charity to attend commemorations
- Obituary: Henry 'Harry' Frederick Rawlins 9 September 1925 - 10 June 2024
for Dutch Liberation in May and for the Operation Market Garden commemorations in September, and to Normandy
- Veterans attend the 77th anniversary of Operation Varsity
is preparing to take a group of WWII veterans to the Netherlands in May for Dutch Liberation, and to Normandy
- Normandy Veterans Reunion, Duxford - 8 October 2015
Date for your diary. #EventsDiary
- In conversation with WWII veteran, Harry Rawlins
My first trip with them was to Normandy in June 2017 which I thoroughly enjoyed and have returned to Normandy with them twice more. changed my life and kept me going and I certainly hope we will be able to return to the Netherlands and Normandy
- Dave Allen, owner and editor of The Cab Driver Newspaper, has passed away
In June this year he spent a week with the charity, cabbies and veterans in Normandy for D-Day 75.
- TAXI interviews volunteer cabbies
He has been on many trips over the years including taking older veterans to The Netherlands and Normandy 2017 for their ‘Back to the Beaches’ tour when Danny was one of the 78 taxis that took 95 veterans to Normandy
- Thanks to our volunteers for going the extra mile
for our website and social media continuing to raise much needed funding and to all our friends in Normandy
- Veterans on the move, TAXI
We are also busy planning our trip to Normandy for the WWII, D-Day commemorations at the beginning of
- Navy veterans are guests of honour on HMS Queen Elizabeth, ITV News
She passed on messages via a VHF radio set to troops landing on the beaches at Normandy.
- TAXI catches up with cabbie Sebastian Philp following his tour of Italian battlefields
Seb: It was very different to trips in France where all the WWII sites in Normandy are marked with huge currently on hold but I certainly hope that next year we are able to take our amazing WWII veterans back to Normandy
- "I am so blessed that the Taxi Charity arranges for me to be picked up from home" - Frank Pendergast
During my annual visits with the Taxi Charity to Normandy and Arnhem we are fortunate to meet lots of
- London cabbies to drive nearly 200 WWII veterans to Worthing for annual day trip
This year’s outing is only a week or so after many of the veterans spent a week in Normandy with the The recent trip to Normandy for D-Day was particularly poignant as I laid a wreath at the memorial service
- Chairman's Blog: 2019 Review
Normandy Recce Trips Several planning trips to Normandy were required, particularly as the date of our During our recce trip from 5 to 7 March, we travelled to Normandy with WWII veterans Bill Gladden, Frank June Normandy D-Day 75 6 June 2019 marked the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, and our week-long trip to Normandy (3 - 8 June) was the culmination of over a year’s planning and preparation. historic visit, our 32-taxi convoy transported thirty-five World War II veterans - most of whom fought in Normandy
- TAXI speaks to seasoned volunteer, Gerry Dunn MBE
As well as volunteering for trips with the Taxi Charity to Normandy, Germany and the Netherlands, I haven
- Former Essex Regiment and Glider Pilot Regiment veteran Captain Ron Johnson has died, aged 102
On a Taxi Charity trip to Normandy in 2017, Ron took part in a question and answer session with local
- D-Day veteran from Islington dies, aged 96
specially selected by General Montgomery as one of the two 'Spearhead Brigades' for the invasion of Normandy