Every November for over thirty years Alec Borrie, 96, from Slade Green has attended the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey, sadly this year will be very different.
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Every November for over thirty years Alec Borrie, 96, from Slade Green has attended the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey, sadly this year will be very different.
Read moreThe Taxi Charity for Military Veterans would usually be in The Netherlands each September with a group of veterans for the annual Wandeltocht in Oosterbeek, where over 30,000 walk a selection of routes, to remember the Battle of Arnhem, in 1944, when over 1,700 British and Polish soldiers and airmen lost their lives.
Read moreSebastian Philp, a London cabbie from Shoreditch, has a real passion to learn all he can about WWII.
Read moreThe Taxi Charity for Military Veterans has been talking with Peter Smoothy, 95 from Herne Bay and George Dunn, 98 from Saltdean near Brighton, about their memories of the Battle of Britain
Read moreOn Sunday 16 August The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans arranged for volunteer cabbies to drive 25 veterans from across London and the south east, to join over 100 veterans and their families for an afternoon of entertainment at a special concert to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VJ Day at Danny House, Hurtspierpoint in West Sussex.
Read moreTo mark the 75th anniversary of VJ Day on Saturday 15 August, the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans delivered specially commissioned VJ Day commemorative tins, filled with sweets and a miniature or two, to WWII veterans.
Read moreWWII veteran Peter Kent, 95, from Pimlico worked on the Mullberry Harbour at Arromanches on D Day before traveling to Canada to join HMS Hartland Point and bring the boys back to Blighty through Panama to the Azores and then to Greenwich.
Read moreVeteran Richard Edsor, 94, from Harlow, served on HMS Formidable. He was a seaman and recalls that after a Kamikaze attack which damaged the flight deck, Formidable was only out of action for six weeks while they put new plates on the deck.
Read moreAt the beginning of the war, Doug was involved in the Russian convoys on board the halcyon class minesweeper HMS Bramble and counts himself as one of the lucky ones.
Read moreDanny McCudden, from Dagenham, served on the Destroyer HMS Queenborough for four years.
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