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Captain Sir Thomas Moore (30 April 1920 – 2 February 2021), popularly known as Captain
Tom, was a British Army officer and businessman known for raising money for charity in the
run-up to his 100th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Quick Facts: Captain Sir Tom Moore, Born ...
Moore served in India and the Burma campaign during the Second World War, and 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, Moore began to walk lengths of his garden in aid of NHS
Charities Together, with the goal of raising £1,000 by his 100th birthday. In the 24-day course
of his fundraising, he made many media appearances and became a popular household name in
the UK, earning a number of accolades and attracting over 1.5 million individual donations. In
recognition of his efforts, he received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason
Award at the 2020 ceremony. He performed in a cover version of the song "You'll Never Walk
Alone" sung by Michael Ball, with proceeds going to the same charity. The single topped the
UK music charts, making him the oldest person to achieve a UK number one.
On the morning of Moore's hundredth birthday, the total raised by his walk passed £30 million,
and by the time the campaign closed at the end of that day had increased to over £32.79 million
(worth almost £39 million with expected tax rebates). His birthday was marked in a number of
ways, including flypasts by the Royal Air Force and the British Army. He received over
150,000 cards, and was appointed as honorary colonel of the Army Foundation College. On 17
July 2020, he was personally knighted by the Queen at Windsor Castle. He died on 2 February
2021 at Bedford Hospitalwhere he was taken after being treated for pneumonia and then testing
positive for COVID-19.
Early life and family
Moore was born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 30 April 1920 and grew up in the
town, the son of Isabella (née Hird) and Wilson/Wilfred Moore. His father was from of a family of
builders, and his mother was a head teacher  Moore was educated at Keighley Grammar School
.
civil and started an apprenticeship in 

engineering .

Military service
Moore was conscripted in the 8th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment(8 DWR) in May
1940, stationed in Cornwall, eight months after the beginning of the Second World War.
[unreliable source?] He was selected for officer training later that year, and attended an Officer Cadet Training
Unit second lieutenant  
 before being commissioned as a   on 28 June 1941.

On 22 October 1941, Moore became a member of the Royal Armoured Corps. This was
because 8 DWR became an armoured unit designated as the 145th Regiment Royal Armoured
Corps. Later that year, he was transferred to the 9th Battalion (9 DWR) in India 146th Regiment
, which had converted to become the 

Royal Armoured Corps  While in India, he was tasked with setting up and running a training programme for army
.

motorcyclists. He was initially posted to Bombay (now Mumbai Kolkata

) and subsequently to Calcutta (now  ).

He was promoted to war-substantive lieutenant on 1 October 1942 and to temporary captain on

11 October 1944.
As part of the Fourteenth Army, the so-called "Forgotten Army", he served in Arakan in
western Burma (now Myanmar) – where he survived dengue fever. Moore returned to the UK in
February 1945, to take a training course on the inner workings of the Churchill tanks, learning to become an instructor. He did not return to the
regiment, remaining as an instructor and the Technical Adjutant of the Armoured Vehicle Fighting School in 
Bovington Camp, Dorset, until he was demobilised in early 1946.
For 64 years, he organised the DWR's annual reunion.