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15/03/2005
NI WWII War heroes return to battlefields thanks to lottery
A Belfast war veteran who was part of the American army unit that liberated Dachau is set to return to Germany to take part in the 60th commemorations next month.
A grant of the £525 from the Big Lottery Fund’s Heroes Return programme is allowing Teddy Dixon to travel back to Germany with his son for the anniversary on April 29th.
Mr Dixon is one of 12 veterans from Belfast, Ballycastle, Lisburn, Carrickfergus, Bangor and Newtownabbey receiving grants under the Heroes Return Scheme. Today’s round of grants, totalling £12,215, is allowing veterans, wives and carers to make pilgrimages to the battlefields across Europe and beyond.
Breidge Gadd, a Big Lottery Fund NI Board Member, said: “The Heroes Return scheme has proved to be exceptionally popular with people in Northern Ireland and I am delighted that the Fund is now extending the deadline for the programme to May 31st 2005. I am confident that this will give everyone who wants to apply the opportunity to do so.”
The Heroes Return programme has also been extended to allow more veterans across Ireland to embark on an overseas commemoration trips. So far more than 100 veterans, spouses and widows across Ireland have availed of the scheme.
(MB/SP)
A grant of the £525 from the Big Lottery Fund’s Heroes Return programme is allowing Teddy Dixon to travel back to Germany with his son for the anniversary on April 29th.
Mr Dixon is one of 12 veterans from Belfast, Ballycastle, Lisburn, Carrickfergus, Bangor and Newtownabbey receiving grants under the Heroes Return Scheme. Today’s round of grants, totalling £12,215, is allowing veterans, wives and carers to make pilgrimages to the battlefields across Europe and beyond.
Breidge Gadd, a Big Lottery Fund NI Board Member, said: “The Heroes Return scheme has proved to be exceptionally popular with people in Northern Ireland and I am delighted that the Fund is now extending the deadline for the programme to May 31st 2005. I am confident that this will give everyone who wants to apply the opportunity to do so.”
The Heroes Return programme has also been extended to allow more veterans across Ireland to embark on an overseas commemoration trips. So far more than 100 veterans, spouses and widows across Ireland have availed of the scheme.
(MB/SP)
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