Overview
- The organizing committee expects more than twenty WWII veterans, including eleven from the UK, one from Canada and about ten from the Netherlands.
- Robbie Hall, 103, and Johan Geneuglijk, 105, are scheduled to light the National Liberation Flame with Mayor Floor Vermeulen in the night of 4 to 5 May.
- The London Taxi Charity will transport and support the visitors, a volunteer group founded after the war by taxi drivers to help veterans with trips and care.
- Organizers say the visit is an intensive operation because of the guests’ very high ages and the need for close guidance.
- The roster includes Geoff Roberts, Paul Terry and Arnold Walton, whose wartime service in Oosterbeek, Nijmegen–Elst and Arnhem anchors the commemoration’s focus on Gelderland’s liberation.