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Tandem Ride – Exmouth to London

A fabulous effort tinged by disappointment – our first causaulty!

On June 25th 2010 with their excellent support crew, former Royal Marines, Steve Sparkes, partially sighted from Exmouth and Carl Tims completed a tandem ride to London from Exmouth in two days, arriving on Armed Forces Day at the Cenotaph Whitehall. Through their effort they hope to raise much needed funds for the RAF Association and the SSAFA.

On reaching London they prepared to join in the Normandy Vets parade to lay their own wreath at the Cenotaph, whilst in the Normandy Vets assembly area preparing, the Baton they had been carrying for the whole challenge was placed on their kit bags, when they’d turned round it was missing.

The team are obviously gutted and spent a long time looking for the Baton, also our grateful thanks to the police on the day for their help. We still like to think that its been put somewhere for safety, perhaps someone not realising what it is, we’d obviously love to see it back where it belongs.

Whoever can find and return it will receive a trophy, cut from the stretcher the handles came from, carrying all the empathy that is connected with it.

Only just recently, when talking about the concept of the Baton and what its origins were, a Royal Marine officer described it as something “worthless and yet priceless” that’s how we all see it – very much part of our family, please help spread the word..FIND THE BATON!!