RAF veteran, 98, plans two mile VE Day walk in aid of soldiers' club
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George Sutherland wants to save Talbot House in Flanders, threatened by coronavirus
A 98-year-old RAF veteran who says he has been inspired by the fundraising efforts of Tom Moore will undertake a two-mile walk on VE Day in aid of a soldiers’ club in Belgium threatened with financial ruin by the coronavirus.
George Sutherland, who escaped to Britain when the Germans invaded his native Belgium in 1940, will walk from Lijssenthoek commonwealth war cemetery in Poperinge to Talbot House, a clubhouse for all the ranks founded in 1915 in the Flemish town of Poperinge, or “Pops”, as British soldiers once called it. Continue reading...