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AFVBC

Taunton AFVBC

Taunton Veteran Breakfast Club
recently organised an event. Not
expecting more than a village fete
size, they were soon bowled over
by interested parties and soon had
to stop taking bookings. They had
70+ exhibits, wives choir and period
singer, stalls, charities and military
vehicles, both private and serving.
The hot weather brought the com-
munity out in droves and eventually
raised nearly £2000 for SSAFA and
other veteran charities. Plans now
underway for next year, with the
council and SSAFA supporting Taun-
ton AFVBC.

Veteran Breakfast Club Member
Jason Hughes told SBT: “We accom-
plished all that on a zero budget, zero
experience, and zero clue!”

High Plains AFVBC, Spain The Scottish Cockney

High Plains Veteran Breakfast Club, Spain Following our weekly af breakfast at
growing! the Green Shutters Café in Largs, I had
WREN, WRAF, RAFP, Tank Reg, REME. RAF the pleasure of interviewing our oldest
veterans in attendance, a good mix. Lots of member Mr Jack Ransom. Jack is a 99
laughs and promises to “do it again”. year old veteran, PoW of 3 and a half
years and a survivor from the KWAI. He
now lives in Largs with his lovely wife
of 10 years Maddie who keeps him on
the straight and narrow! At the age of
94 he wrote a book called “The Scottish
Cockney” and I am now in the posses-
sion of my very own signed copy. In
Sept 2014 he re- joined the Royal British
Legion Scotland Largs Branch and enjoys
his weekly visits to our Veteran Break-
fast Club at the Green Shutters Cafe on
Tuesday mornings. Jack is a
truly fascinating gen-
Coventry AFVBC tleman and despite the
tragedy in his life still re-
Naomi de Souza, Community Reporter mains forever posi-
at Coventry Telegraph met with her local tive, am proud to call him
veterans breakfast club recently. You can my oldest friend and look
read her article here and view a video of the forward to celebrating his
veterans speaking about their experiences: 100th Birthday in April.
https://www.amazon.
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/ co.uk/Scottish-Cockn-
news/coventry-news/veterans-break- ey-Jack-Ransom/
fast-club-in-coventry-16807931 dp/1848974302

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