Hello Everybody!
Thanks for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page.

We hope you will be able to support us in fundraising for Help for Heroes. 
Anything...big or small...will be gratefully received. Every little really does help!

 

Also, a  BIG THANK YOU to all those who have already donated (we have listed your names at the end of this message). With your support we are at last on the road to achieving our target of £3,000+ and helping servicemen wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

We have obtained the support of the Duke of Edinburgh, Captain General of the Royal Marines, who attended the  premiere in 1955 of the film, The Cockleshell Heroes.  Our challenge is to follow the route taken in December 1942 by a group of Royal Marines who later became known as the Cockleshell Heroes.  Led by Major “Blondie” Hasler their mission, code-named Operation Frankton, was to paddle about 70 miles up the Gironde estuary to Bordeaux, to sink enemy shipping, and then to escape overland in the hope of returning to Britain.

Of the ten who set out, only two survived – Major Hasler and Corporal Bill Sparks.  After succeeding in sinking blockade runners in Bordeaux, they paddled a further 25 miles downstream to Blaye and then walked 100 miles to Ruffec, where they met up with the French Resistance and eventually reached Spain and safety. We will undertake this project in July - August 2010 and follow the full route of Major Hasler and Corporal Sparks, by kayaking nearly 100 miles in a two-man folding kayak, and then walking and running 100 miles to Ruffec. 

 

Our target is to raise at least £3,000, we hope more, and every penny that we raise will be paid to Help for Heroes.

Do please help.

 

Richard Flint and Rory Peyton-Jones

List of donors (thank your very much, to all of you!):

1.   Mr George Molony (sailing master on the Brendan - a leather boat that sailed from Ireland to America).
2.   Mr Robin Cook and Mrs Carol Cook
3.   Mrs Joan Flint
4.   Mr Dermot Scott and Mrs Sue Scott
5.   Mr Richard Measures and Mrs Pat Measures
6.   Mr John Flint and Mrs Clarissa Flint (in memory of Richard's Great Uncle Cyril, killed on active service with the Rifle Brigade in Italy in December 1944)
7.   Mrs Lyn Lindsay
8.   Mr Andrew Broomby and Mrs Alison Broomby
9.   Mr Maurice Checker and Mrs Sue Checker
10. Monsieur Serge Tarrago and Mrs Leslie Tarrago
11. Mr Alex Scott and Mrs Sam Scott
12. Admiral Sir John Kerr GCB FRIN DL
13. Mr Sam Rayner, Managing Director, Lakeland Limited
14. Mrs Susan Thornley DL, High Sheriff of Cumbria
15. Mr Paul Broom
16. Mr Geraint Lewis and Mrs Helen Lewis

17. Mrs Kathryn Knowles

18. Laithwaites Wines

19. Mr John Holton

20. Ms Veronica Ellis

21. Mr Simon Peyton-Jones

22. Mr Paul Pearce

23. Mr Richard and Mrs Amanda Peyton-Jones

24. Ms Lucinda Bottard

25. Ms Hilary Steer

26. Mr Jeremy Peyton-Jones

27. Ms Marina Shannon

28. Mr Paul Pearse

29. Mr Simon Peyton-Jones

30. Mr Dingle

31. Mr G D Peyton-Jones

32. Miss J L Peyton-Jones

33. Mr K Steadman

34. Mr F M Hole

35. Dr Amor-Train

36. Mr Michael McGuire

37.Mr Toby and Mrs Angela Peyton-Jones

38. Mr Neil Cameron

39. Mr Colin Dunlop

40. "Anonymous"

41. Mr Anthony Garnett

42. Mr Graham Dick

43. The Jackman Family

44. Ms Julia Peyton-Jones

45. Mr Rod and Mrs Judith Flint

46. Mrs Judy Pateson

47. Mr Geoffrey Chandler

48. Miss Beryl Benn