# @candmclub on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DJYpjHDK4HL
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71769663-candmclub-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-08T08:02:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Caravan and Motorhome Club (@candmclub) — https://gondola.cc/candmclub

## Caption

🇬🇧 As we reflect, remember and commemorate the 80th Anniversary of VE Day as a nation, we are looking back at the contributions made within the touring community to help the wartime effort.

🚑 Mrs M.M.M. Fowler OBE, was Vice-President of the Caravan Club from 1936 - 1957, a dedicated caravanner and a Commander of the British Red Cross. After losing her husband in the First World War, she repurposed her Blue Caravans as mobile Red Cross first aid units. During the Second World War, these caravans were deployed in the Midlands, including during the Coventry Blitz. As noted in an article preserved in her personal scrapbook: 'When the air raids on Coventry were at their height, the Blue Caravan was in the thick of it – and escaped with only one mirror shattered and another cracked.'

✈️ Flying Officer Charles Agate joined the RAF Parachute Training School in Ringway during the War. He made his first jump on the day he arrived and finished the War as Ringway top scorer with a record of 1601 jumps. All whilst being based out of his trusty caravan.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Colonies of caravan dwellers were springing up outside the areas affected by nightly raids. With caravanners having roof-spotters and Home Guard, with this photo showing a youngster keeping in step with a member.

#VEDay #VEDay80 #History

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