Search Results for: Leonard Cheshire

Who was Leonard Cheshire?

Find out more about the life of Group Captain Lord Leonard Cheshire VC and how our charity began.

Guest Blog: Leonard Cheshire’s humour

I joined the Resonate project at the beginning of 2020, just before the first lockdown. I wanted to be a digital volunteer with Leonard Cheshire because it afforded me the...

Resonate Podcast – Episode 6: Leonard Cheshire and Sue Ryder

...Sue Ryder and Leonard Cheshire. Leonard and Sue met after the Second World War, both coming to terms with their wartime experiences and finding a way to ensure such a...

Arthur Dykes

Find out more about Arthur Dykes - the first resident at Le Court

Leonard Cheshire in the Second World War

Find out more about Leonard Cheshire's career in the RAF

Guest Blog: The Cheshire Voice

...Philip Mason, Ronald Travers (TV director & Leonard Cheshire Foundation), Nykola Lewis Jones (PHAB), Norman Croucher (mountaineer), William Douglas Home (playwright, politician); and Group Captain Leonard Cheshire. The Cheshire Voice...

Guest Blog: Volunteering at the Leonard Cheshire Archive

...northern France. Leonard Cheshire was the Wing Commander at that time, and I had digitised his papers from that mission. Leonard Cheshire and 35 squadron 1941 in front of an...

New exhibition: Voices from Leonard Cheshire

  Leonard Cheshire being interviewed by Tony Wardle for a film Visit our exhibition to find out more about the history of disability charity Leonard Cheshire and its founder, Second...

Leonard Cheshire accepting the Carnegie Gift

Leonard Cheshire making an after dinner speech to accept the Carnegie Gift at Le Court Cheshire Home with Professor Cheshire and Cherry Morris sat nearby....

Group Captain Leonard Cheshire Interview Part 6

Soundtrack of an interview with Leonard Cheshire, aimed at new starters of the 'Service Corps' Training Scheme, set up by the Leonard Cheshire Foundation in the 1970s to train carers....