A blind veteran from Newcastle has received the Outstanding Achievement award from the military charity Blind Veterans UK to recognise his exceptional accomplishments…
Thomas Appleby, 93 and from Heaton in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, received the award at the Blind Veterans UK Founder’s Day Awards which were held at the charity’s training and rehabilitation centre in Llandudno. Thomas said: “It was a great honour to win the award and was very much the icing on the cake”.
