21st March 2010
Staffordshire County Showground
| It’s about the blokes, our men and women of the Armed Forces. It’s about Derek, a rugby player who has lost both his legs, it’s about Carl whose jaw is wired up so he has been drinking through a straw. It’s about Richard who was handed a mobile phone as he lay on the stretcher so he could say goodbye to his wife. It’s about Ben, it’s about Steven and Andy and Mark, it’s about them all. They are just blokes but they are our blokes; they are our heroes. We want to help our heroes. |
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The Help For Heroes European 4x4 Rally follows the path and tells the story of the Allied Invasion through Europe including parts fabled by the Band of Brothers book and television series. As young men, who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear, the Allied Forces landed in France early on D-Day morning – 6th June 1944. The liberation of Europe had commenced.
The event will start on Saturday 19th June 2010 at a secret location in North Wiltshire. After using byways on Salisbury Plain the rally travels to Portsmouth to embark by ferry to France. It will be an 1800 mile expedition and will travel through 6 countries in the 10 days; concluding in Bavaria, Germany. This non-speed event with a maximum entry of 45 teams will be part military history tour (including museums etc), part fun activities, part off-road driving and part club-type social, open to road-legal 4x4 vehicles. |
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| The whole focus is to raise and donate money to the event’s chosen charity: HELP FOR HEROES. The charity was launched in October 2007 by Bryn and Emma Parry and, with the backing and support of celebrities, including Jeremy and Francie Clarkson, The Royal Family, the media and countless ordinary people it has raised over £1m every month since then.
Help for Heroes is strictly non-political. The money raised by Help for Heroes is used to support wounded Servicemen and women of every colour and creed and it strongly opposes any individual or political party who believes otherwise and those who seek to use the charity’s name for their own political gain.
In addition to Normandy, the Help For Heroes European 4x4 Rally route will visit the Market Garden and Rhine offensives at Arnhem, Holland, where on 17 September 1944, in the largest airborne operation ever seen thousands of paratroopers descended from the sky by parachute or glider landing behind enemy lines. |
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The route then moves south, to Bastogne in Belgium where in the coldest winter for decades, the Germans made a final push – the Battle of the Bulge.
Towards Germany, the rally routing is via the Alsace region of France and its Maginot Line fortifications, then onto Dachau and its horrors of war. We end our journey at Hitler's "impenetrable" Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden.
For further details about this event please visit www.h4hrally.co.uk or contact the organisers via: info@h4hrally.co.uk or call them on (Tim) 07917 097374 / (Keith) 07766 712851 |
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