NEW MOBILITY SCOOTER FOR BERNARD

BERNARD IS A 98yr OLD WAR VETERAN WHO LIVES INDEPENDENTLY IN SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION IN BROOMHALL SHEFFIELD   

ON THURSDAY 28TH JAN BERNARD HAD HIS MOBILITY SCOOTER STOLEN
(as reported in Sheffield star)
THE SCOOTER WAS GIVEN TO HIM FROM A GOOD NEIGHBOUR AND WAS HIS ONLY MEANS OF GETTING OUT AND ABOUT TO LOCAL SHOPS AS UNFORTUNATELY IN LAST YEAR OR SO HE HAS STRUGGLED TO GET ABOUT

BERNARD IS LIKE FAMILY TO US AND WE ARE TRYING TO RAISE FUNDS TO GET HIM A NEW SCOOTER. 

BERNARD IS A PROUD MAN AND PROBABLY WOULD NOT WANT ALL THE FUSS BUT ITS ONLY RIGHT THAT WE TRY TO GIVE BACK TO BERNARD WHO HAS GIVEN SO MUCH TO THIS COUNTRY 

"This 98-year-old man has worked all his life, fought in the war and this scooter gave him a little enjoyment and independence every day.
“The scooter was locked up on Wednesday night and by 7am it was gone. It just breaks my heart.”

Bernard was awarded the Légion d'honneur, the highest award for bravery by the French Government in 2014 for his role in the 1944 Normandy landings.
He was in Dunkirk as a member of the Royal Artillery.
He said: “I joined up in 1941 after training to be a metallurgist and in those days, they wouldn’t let you go if you were in that occupation, but my boss got wounded in Dunkirk and he pulled a few strings so I could join up.”

Following service in the Far East, he came back to Sheffield and worked for now long-gone Sheffield firms, W.T. Flather and Dunford & Elliot’s, eventually retiring from Sheepbridge Engineering in Chesterfield after it was taken over and closed down by GKN.
Following retirement, Bernard spent 12 years as a car park attendant for St Mark’s Church in Broomhall, raising valauble funds for church causes.

PLEASE HELP TO GET BERNARD A NEW SCOOTER BY DONATING TO THIS FUND. ALL MONIES RAISED WILL GO TO BERNARD FOR A NEW SCOOTER AND IF WE MANAGE TO RAISE EXTRA WEWILL DONATE TO A CHARITY OF HIS CHOICE 

THANK YOU