The 15 of August is the anniversary of the surrender of Japan, known as VJ Day. WWII Veterans Roy ‘Doug’ Miller and Alfie ‘Fred’ Lee were both serving in the Far East when Japan surrendered 76 years ago, they shared their stories with the Taxi Charity. Doug, 97, joined the Navy in 1940 as a…
On the 77th anniversary of D Day, volunteer London Cab drivers took a large group of WWII veterans to the National Memorial Arboretum to participate in the official opening of the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans originally planned to take a group of WWII veterans to Normandy to…
When the UK went into the first Coronavirus lockdown on 20 March 2020 no one could have predicted that a year later the country would still be facing so many restrictions. The Taxi Charity has been looking back on the past year. The Taxi Charity was with a group of veterans in Oosterbeek in…
Renowned artist Rosa Branson MBE, has spent a lifetime creating breathtakingly beautiful pictures including a picture for the Taxi Charity Rosa Branson MBE was born in 1933, and for over 60 years has been painting and designing fabrics. She specialises in the Old Masters oil painting technique of layering subtle glazes of translucent paint…
The 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. This year…
Ahead of the 75th anniversary of the surrender of Japan, that ultimately led to the end of World War II, the Taxi Charity spoke to some veterans who served in the Far East in WWII. Roy “Doug” Miller 96, from Croydon, joined the Navy in 1940 as a fifteen-year-old having lied about his age “It…
On 15 February The Coco Club in Devizes raffled an original picture by renowned artist John Hammond to raise funds for the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans Artist John Hammond kindly donated the original artwork to The Coco Club to raise funds for a charity that is very close to their hearts –…