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A REMARKABLE £40,324.87 was raised in Dunfermline for the 2020 Scottish Poppy Appeal – despite the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. With scores of dedicated volunteers forced to stay at home and many of the usual poppy outlets closed, there were fears that the pandemic could have a catastrophic effect on the annual appeal. However, thanks to the tireless efforts and ingenuity of local volunteers, the total was only marginally down on the sum raised in 2019 of just over £42,000. Led by area organiser Christine Evans, who has been a Poppyscotland volunteer for 20 years, the appeal had incredible support from across the community.
Stanley Howard Tooze and his identical twin Edwin were born in Rockwell Green in 1923. His first job was as an errand boy at Fox s Factory, in Wellington. He joined the Home Guard at 14, working for the Ministry of Works constructing Dunkeswell airfield runways, driving the concrete lorries. He was conscripted into the army at 18 and immediately volunteered for the Paratroopers as he thought it would be more exciting. He was in A company of the 8th Battalion Parachute Regiment and first saw action on the night before D-Day in June 1944, when he parachuted into German occupied France and was involved in fierce fighting around Caen and then liberating Northern France.
1224 (Wharfedale) Squadron, Air Training Corps (ATC) is celebrating 80 years of providing young people in the Ilkley area with training and experiences they wouldn’t get anywhere else. The Squadron was formed as 1224 (Ilkley) Squadron on March 7,1941, and paraded for the first time at Ilkley Grammar School a week later under the command of Flight Lieutenant Frank Dixon Marshall, a veteran of the First World War who had served with the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force. He would later be made an MBE and become the High Sheriff of Yorkshire. The ATC was formed with the intention of training young men in anticipation of them joining the Royal Air Force, or another service, and this is what many of the cadets of 1224 Squadron did.