Operation Market Garden

WWII Veteran Ray Whitwell at the Oosterbeek Cemetray
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103-Year-Old WWII Veteran Commemorates Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands

September 22, 2022 | in Annual trip, Arnhem, Cab drivers, Cabbies, Celebration, champion, Charity, Dad, Elderly, Event, Father, Hero, Taxi, The Netherlands, The Taxi Charity For Military Veterans, veteran, Veterans, volunteers, WWII, Yorkshire

The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans was delighted to take 103-year-old Arnhem veteran Ray Whitwell to the Netherlands for the Operation Market Garden Commemorations. WWII Veteran Ray Whitwell who served with the Royal Army Service Corps Ray flew over to The Netherlands in a Glider carrying a jeep and a trailer packed with ammunition and…

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Taxi Charity volunteers walk the Wandeltocht
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You’ll Never Walk Alone

September 6, 2022 | in Annual trip, Cab drivers, Cabbies, Celebration, champion, Charity, Elderly, Event, Fundraising, London, Taxi, The Taxi Charity For Military Veterans, veteran, Veterans, Visit, volunteers, WWII

London Cab Drivers, Taxi Charity volunteers and WWII veterans joined the thousands at the annual Airborne March in Oosterbeek. On 3 September, a group of Taxi Charity volunteers who had brought  seven WWII veterans and their carers and families to the Netherlands joined the estimated 32,000 other participants to walk  a 15km section of the…

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Chris Willmott and Seb Philp- Market Garden Challenge for the TAxi Charity 2
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‘Market Garden Challenge’ Aims to Raise £10k for Veterans

July 25, 2022 | in Annual trip, Cab drivers, Cabbies, champion, Charity, Event, funding, Fundraising, London, Taxi, The Taxi Charity For Military Veterans, veteran, Veterans, volunteers, WWII

This September two Taxi Charity volunteers plan to cycle 115k across The Netherlands on WWII gearless bikes and then walk 40k to commemorate the battle fought by the allies during Operation Market Garden in 1944. Taxi Charity volunteer’s Chris Willmott and Seb Philp have set themselves an impressive two-day challenge to raise £10k for the…

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