2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans. One man who has been associated with the charity for almost all of those years is Len Sheppard, 93 from Albany Park. The Taxi Charity was formed seventy five years ago in 1948 and just a few years later London cab driver Len…
2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans 2023 will mark the 75th anniversary of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, a remarkable milestone for a small charity which supports veterans throughout the UK. Founded in 1948 by three London Cab drivers who wanted to arrange for friends who had been…
Thanks to a campaign, launched in June by the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans to find the young girl Reg had shared his food with in Normandy in 1944 they have finally been reunited. Reg Pye, 99 from Burry Port, served with the 224 Field Company, Royal Engineers as a driver carrying sappers, mines and…
WWII naval veteran Len Hobbs, 98, died peacefully at home on Monday 31 October with his daughter Elizabeth at his side. Born on 1 August 1924, Len Hobbs from South Woodham Ferrers, near Chelmsford, joined the Royal Navy in 1943 and after completing his basic training at HMS Ganges was sent to the Isle of…
On Remembrance Sunday kind hearted London cab drivers will give up their time to drive veterans around London. On 13 November, hundreds of London Cab drivers will volunteer their time to support the free Poppy Cabs Service which transports veterans around the Capital to attend services at The Cenotaph and participate in the Remembrance Sunday…
WWII veteran Danny McCrudden, 98, who served with the Royal Navy’s Pacific Fleet on the Destroyer HMS Queenborough died on 22 October 2022 aged 98. WWII Veteran and entertainer Danny McCrudden from Dagenham was married to his beloved wife Ruby for seventy years. Due to ill health Danny had recently been living in Blenheim Care…
On 23 October Taxi Charity volunteers were delighted to attend the dedication and unveiling of a Desert Rats monument at the National Memorial Arboretum. The Taxi Charity was delighted to accept an invitation from Lt Col S P Copley-Smith, Chair of the Desert Rats Association to attend the dedication and unveiling of a powerful…
During the recent visit to the Netherlands London cab driver Ian Parsons handed over the role of Chairman of The Taxi Charity to fellow cab driver Brian Heffernan. The previous and new Chairman agreed that the Taxi Charity trip to the Netherlands for Wandeltocht, the Airborne commemorative walk, over the first weekend of September was…
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…
Malcolm Dean, 76, from Downton near Salisbury has raised £3,700 for the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans. The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans was delighted to receive a donation of £3,700 from Malcolm Dean who this summer made his first parachute jump in France. Malcom Dean, 76, from Downton near Salisbury has been…