Veterans need funds to return to France (From York Press)
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Veterans need funds to return to France
12:41pm Thursday 2nd September 2010 in
I HAVE the honour to be the chairman of the York Normandy Veterans’ Association. The requirements for becoming a member are to have served on land, sea or in the air in or over Normandy between June 5 and August 14, 1944.
We have a diminishing membership, but have been able to make pilgrimages to places that will forever stick in our memories.
This year we received a grant from the Heroes Return branch of the National Lottery to visit D-Day landing beaches at Caen, Fontenay-le-Pesnil and Caen, and cemeteries where friends and comrades are buried.
After Normandy was freed, we fought through northern France, Belgium and up through Nijmegen and Arnhem in Holland up the capitulation of the German forces. Some of us were wounded or taken prisoner and while there is still time, our veterans are anxious to make a journey through that area.
The National Lottery is no longer able to help us and we are collecting funds for this trip by carrying out street collections.
I would like to thank York Railway Station and the local supermarkets that have sanctioned our collections, and express our gratitude to the benevolent British public.
Cyril B Haworth, York Normandy Veterans’ Association, Kyle Close, Tollerton.
Comments(2)
York Fox
says...
4:05pm Thu 2 Sep 10
Jam tomorrow wrote:Camelot's shareholders pockets?!
The National Lottery is no longer able to help usI would have thought that the YNVA was exactly the type of recipient that we would want our lottery money to go to. It's a disgrace that it isn't and insulting to read where a lot of it does go.
Why virgin didn't win this considering they offered 100% to charity I have no idea. some very large brown envelopes being passed around somewhere.
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Jam tomorrow says...
3:47pm Thu 2 Sep 10
I would have thought that the YNVA was exactly the type of recipient that we would want our lottery money to go to. It's a disgrace that it isn't and insulting to read where a lot of it does go.