Charity
From the 11th of October through to the 11th November 2014, I will be offering a special code that will donate 10% of the total in your shopping basket to the Royal British Legion to mark the 100th anniversary of the first great war and remembrance day for all service veterans that the Legion support with their amazing work.
Enter this code on checkout to donate and enter the prize draw - Legion
(PLEASE NOTE- on checkout the discount will show as a 1p discount only as my shop can not send the donation directly - I will make sure the rest is put together and handed to the Ivybridge Legion on the 11th. All names of people who have donated along with a receipt from the Legion will be published on this page to say thanks and for transparency purposes.)
Please share this page and code with as many like minded anglers as you can and lets see how much money we can give. Whatever we manage to raise will be handed over to the Ivybridge Legion at the war memorial on the 11th November.
As well as donating 10% of your final bill to the Legion, you will be entered into a draw (only available to people who check out from the store using the above code - Legion) to win a set of Reed wagglers (value of £40). These floats measure from 4 inches to 10 inches. Cocking weights are approximately 3BB through to 9BB in 1BB increments). Find out why below.....
The reason I have chosen to make this set of reed wagglers for the prize is because I collect my supply of reeds every year from a place called Slapton Ley in the South Hams of Devon where I live. I have pasted an entry from Wikipedia below that details briefly the tragic losses that occurred there at the end of WW2 / D Day preparations. I see this tank every time I go there and stop to remember the men who lost their lives.
"In late 1943 Torcross was evacuated, along with many other villages in the South Hams area, to make way for 15,000 allied troops who needed the area to practise for the D-Day landings.
In the early hours of 28 April 1944 a tragic incident happened during Exercise Tiger: nine German torpedo boats (Schnellboote), alerted by heavy radio traffic, intercepted a three-mile-long convoy of vessels travelling from the Isle of Portland to Slapton Sands to undertake landing rehearsals for D Day. TwoTank Landing Ships (LST) were sunk in the engagement and 749 American servicemen died. Poor communications led to badly-timed shelling on the beach, killing about 300 more men. Over 1,000 lives were lost over the course of the operation.
A Sherman Amphibious Tanks and several plaques stand at Torcross car park between Slapton Ley and the beach as memorials to the men who lost their lives. The operation to salvage the tank from the shallow waters of Start Bay was financed by Ken Small, a Torcross hotelier, and was completed in 1984."