Fred Glover was called up during WWII and after his training volunteered for the Parachute Regiment and was posted to 9 Battalion.

The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans has been talking to their veterans about how they will mark Remembrance Sunday this year as the usual events in London are dramatically scaled back as we go back into lockdown.

Volunteer London licenced taxi drivers took three WWII veterans to the Sun Inn in Faversham to support the launch of the Kent Community Foundation Knock and Check Campaign which asks the community to look out for their elderly neighbours this winter

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.

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.

To 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.

WWII 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.