VOLUNTEERS from UK Mask Force (UKMF) have made a delivery of personal protective equipment (PPE) to the Royal British Legion’s Dunkirk Memorial House in Bishops Lydeard.

The team at the care home provide nursing and personal care, and short-term respite care, for the Armed Forces community and their families.

The delivery last week, which included 1,250 masks and 250 bottles of hand sanitiser, was the first of six UKMF drops at Legion care homes across the UK.

Dunkirk Memorial House care home manager Anne Lewin said: “The Royal British Legion and all of us at Dunkirk Memorial House would like to thank UK Mask Force for providing us with additional PPE.

“During the Covid-19 pandemic the safety and well-being of our residents and staff is our highest priority. Now more than ever it is crucial that those who have served and sacrificed for us are looked after. This kind donation will help ensure we can continue providing critical support to those who are most at risk.”

So far the not-for-profit organisation has delivered more than 14,000 masks and sanitisers to health facilities across the UK.

UKMF director William Ralston-Saul said: “UK Mask Force made a very successful visit to the Royal British Legion Care Home, Dunkirk Memorial House, to deliver a large quantity of masks and bottles of hand sanitisers.

“Mask Force is a charity operated primarily by former servicemen who have been supplying PPE to care homes and NHS doctors’ practices throughout the country.

“Several former servicemen, led by Lieutenant General Louis Lillywhite, the former Surgeon General of the British Armed Forces, turned up for the handover of PPE. Wearing regimental berets and medals it was a moving event outside Dunkirk House in the home’s splendid grounds.”

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