Captain Sir Tom Moore

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Captain Sir Thomas Moore (born 30 April 1920), popularly known as “Captain Tom”, is a former British Army officer and centenarian, known for his achievements raising money for charity in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Moore served in India and the Burma campaign during the Second World War. He later became an instructor in armoured warfare. After the war, he worked as managing director of a concrete company and was an avid motorcycle racer. On 6 April 2020, at the age of 99, he began to walk around his garden in aid of NHS Charities Together during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the goal of raising £1,000 by his hundredth birthday.The total he raised was £32,794,710. In doing so, he made many media appearances and became a popular household name in the United Kingdom generating much interest in his life story. Soon after the walk, he featured in a cover version of the song "You'll Never Walk Alone", with proceeds going to the same charity. The single topped the UK music charts and made him the oldest person to ever achieve that.

On 6 April 2020 Captain Tom Moore began a fundraising campaign to help the British National Health Service (NHS) during the COVID-19 pandemic by aiming to complete one hundred, 25 m (27 yd) laps of his garden, in ten-lap chunks, with the help of a walking frame, branding the endeavour "Tom's 100th Birthday Walk For The NHS".

Just Giving - total nearly £12 500 00 16 May 2020 at 10.15 am

Funds raised by Moore are being spent on well-being packs for National Health Service staff facilitating rest and recuperation rooms, devices to enable hospital patients to keep in contact with family members, and community groups who support patients once discharged from hospitals.

On 23 April, tom Moore was given a Pride of Britain award in recognition of his efforts, after "thousands of nominations" were received. He was appointed the first Honorary Colonel of the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, Yorkshire, a training centre for soldiers under 18, on his 100th birthday. He also received the Yorkshire Regiment Medal for his "outstanding contribution to our military effectiveness and military reputation"

His motivation:BBC News

When you think of who it is all for—all those brave and super doctors and nurses we have got—I think they deserve every penny and I hope we get some more for them, too.

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Military career

Moore enlisted in 8 Duke of Wellington (145 Royal Armoured Corps) at the beginning of the Second World War, and was selected for officer training in 1940, eventually rising to the rank of captain. He served in the eighth battalion of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) (DWR) before being transferred to the ninth battalion DWR in India. He served in Arakan in western Burma and afterward in Sumatra after the Japanese surrendered. Originally an infantry regiment, the DWR was converted to a tank unit as part of the Royal Armoured Corps and on his return to Britain, Moore served as an instructor at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle School in Bovington, Dorset.

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Moore_(soldier)#cite_note-BBC-522...
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/14/second-world-war-vetera...