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===Decorations===
===Decorations===
For his war service, Moore was awarded four medals<ref name="ES">{{cite news |title=War veteran, 99, hits £14m for NHS as Hancock calls him an inspiration |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/war-veteran-tom-moore-matt-hancock-9-million-nhs-a4415496.html |accessdate=17 April 2020 |work=Evening Standard |date=16 April 2020 }}</ref> and the Yorkshire Regiment Medal in 2020 for his outstanding contribution to our military effectiveness and military reputation.
For his war service, Moore was awarded four medals<ref name="ES">{{cite news |title=War veteran, 99, hits £14m for NHS as Hancock calls him an inspiration |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/war-veteran-tom-moore-matt-hancock-9-million-nhs-a4415496.html |accessdate=17 April 2020 |work=Evening Standard |date=16 April 2020 }}</ref> and the Yorkshire Regiment Medal in 2020 for his outstanding contribution to our military effectiveness and military reputation.<ref>https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/news/2020/04/tom-moore-birthday/</ref>
*[[1939–1945 Star]]
*[[1939–1945 Star]]
*[[Burma Star]]
*[[Burma Star]]

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Colonel
Thomas Moore
Moore wearing a blazer with regimental badge, regimental tie and three medals
Moore during his fund-raising walk. He is wearing the 1939–1945 Star, Burma Star, and War Medal 1939–1945.
Born
Thomas Moore

(1920-04-30) 30 April 1920 (age 104)
Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Occupations
  • Army officer
  • Managing director
Known for
  • 2020 fundraising walk
  • UK No. 1 single
  • Second World War veteran
Children2
Military career
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service / branch British Army
Years of service1939–1946
RankHonorary Colonel
Unit
Battles / wars
WebsiteTom's Walk for the NHS (JustGiving)

Colonel Thomas Moore (born 30 April 1920), known informally as Captain Tom, is a former British Army officer known for his efforts to raise money for charity in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the 2020 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. On the morning of his birthday the total he had raised reached £30 million[1], with a current total of over £30.2 million. 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, and earned a number of accolades. 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 achieve a UK number one.

His 100th birthday was marked in a number of ways, including a flypast by the Royal Air Force. He received over 140,000 cards, and was appointed as honorary colonel of the Army Foundation College.

Early life and family

Moore was born to Wilfred Moore, one of a family of builders, in Keighley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on 30 April 1920, and was raised in the town.[2][3][4] He was educated at Keighley Grammar School and completed an apprenticeship in civil engineering.[5]

Military career

Moore enlisted in the 8th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (8 DWR) at the beginning of the Second World War, stationed in Cornwall.[2] He was selected for officer training in 1940,[5] and attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit before being commissioned as a second lieutenant on 28 June 1941.[6]

On 22 October 1941, Moore became a member of the Royal Armoured Corps. This was because his battalion, the 8 DWR, became an armoured unit designated as the 145th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps.[7][5] Later, he was transferred to the 9th Battalion (9 DWR) in India, which had also been redesignated as the 146th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps. He was initially posted to Bombay (now Mumbai) and subsequently to Calcutta (now Kolkata).[2] His regiment were equipped with M3 Lee tanks and participated in the Battle of Ramree Island.[8] He was promoted to war-substantive lieutenant on 1 October 1942 and to temporary captain on 11 October 1944.[9]

He served in Arakan in western Burma (now Myanmar) and afterward in Sumatra after the Japanese surrender,[5][10] by which time he had risen to the rank of captain.[5][10] On his return to Britain, he served as an instructor at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle School in Bovington, Dorset.[5][10]

Decorations

For his war service, Moore was awarded four medals[11] and the Yorkshire Regiment Medal in 2020 for his outstanding contribution to our military effectiveness and military reputation.[12]

Later work and hobbies

After leaving the army, he worked as managing director of a Fens-based company manufacturing concrete,[15] Cawood Concrete Products Ltd, which was renamed March Concrete Products Ltd. after he led a management buyout in 1983.[16] The company was sold to ARC in 1987.[16]

For 64 years, he organised the DWR's annual reunion.[2]

Moore raced motorcycles competitively, wearing the number 23.[17] He rode a Scott motorcycle, winning several trophies.[2]

Tom's 100th Birthday Walk

On 6 April 2020, with his hundredth birthday approaching, Moore began a fundraising campaign to raise money for NHS Charities Together, a group of charities supporting staff and volunteers caring for COVID-19 patients in the British public health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. He aimed to complete one hundred 25 m (27 yd) laps of his garden, ten laps per day, with the help of a walking frame, branding the endeavour "Tom's 100th Birthday Walk For The NHS".[15][18][19]

The initial £1,000 goal having been realised on 10 April, the target was increased, first to £5,000,[20] and eventually to £500,000 as more people around the world became involved.[21] Fund-raising soared exponentially when the British media publicised the endeavour. Moore, who joined Twitter in the same month, used the site to express joy over accumulating such a staggering amount of money for the NHS.[22]

The JustGiving page for his walk reports that, as of 08:45 30 April 2020 (UTC), he had raised in excess of £30.2 million,[23] the largest-ever amount raised by a JustGiving campaign,[24][25] beating the previous record of £5.2 million raised (partially posthumously) by Stephen Sutton.[26][27] More than 1.4 million individuals have donated.[23]

Funds raised by Moore are being spent on such things as 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.[10][28]

He achieved his initial target of one hundred laps on the morning of 16 April, watched at a safe distance by a guard of honour from the 1st Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment,[29] into which the DWR were merged in 2006.[30] He has said he will not stop, and aims to do a second hundred.[10]

On reaching the £5 million mark, Moore explained his motivation:[31]

When we started off with this exercise we didn't anticipate we'd get anything near that sort of money. It's really amazing. All of them, from top to bottom, in the National Health Service, they deserve everything that we can possibly put in their place. They're all so brave. Because every morning or every night they're putting themselves into harm's way, and I think you've got to give them full marks for that effort. We're a little bit like having a war at the moment. But the doctors and the nurses, they're all on the front line, and all of us behind, we've got to supply them and keep them going with everything that they need, so that they can do their jobs even better than they're doing now.

Number one single

To mark Moore's 100th lap, the singer Michael Ball sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" for him live on BBC Breakfast.[32] Within 24 hours,[33] the performance was made into a digital single featuring the NHS Voices of Care Choir, and Moore's spoken words.[32] Released by Decca Records,[34] on 17 April, with all proceeds going to NHS Charities Together, the recording went straight to number one in the United Kingdom's "The Official Big Top 40" chart. It sold almost 36,000 copies in its first 48 hours,[35] and was "biggest trending song" as measured by the Official Charts Company.[34] On 24 April, it became No. 1 in the weekly "Official" UK Singles Chart, making Moore the oldest person to achieve that position and meaning that he is at No. 1 on his 100th birthday.[36]

Moore's bid to reach No. 1 was boosted when his leading competitor, the then-current No. 1, The Weeknd, used Twitter to ask people to support Moore and make him No. 1 for his 100th birthday.[37][38]

Recognition

Moore has given over 50 media interviews.[39]

On 16 April, after Moore's 100th lap, a UK Government spokesman said:[40]

The Prime Minister will certainly be looking at ways to recognise Tom's heroic efforts.

By 20 April, more than 800,000 people had signed a petition calling for Moore to be knighted.[41]

Brigadier Andrew Jackson, colonel of the Yorkshire Regiment, described Moore as:[42]

an absolute legend [from] an exceptional generation that are still an inspiration for our Yorkshire soldiers today.

Keighley Town Council stated that they will grant Moore the Freedom of Keighley.[43][44] Moore was also guest of honour at, via a video link, and opened, the NHS Nightingale Hospital Yorkshire and the Humber, in Harrogate, on 21 April.[42][45]

On 23 April, he was given a Pride of Britain award in recognition of his efforts, after "thousands of nominations" were received.[46][47]

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.[48][49]

A number of artists have painted portraits of Moore; some said they would gift the paintings to him.[50] Others depicted him in murals, including examples in Cambourne,[51] Tamworth,[52] and Thetford.[53]

UK television channel ITV have commissioned a 30-minute documentary, Captain Tom's War, about his military career.[54] It is scheduled to be screened on 8 May.[54]

Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records recognised Moore with two separate world records: as the fundraiser raising the greatest amount of money in an individual charity walk, and as the oldest person to have a number-one single on the UK charts.[55]

100th Birthday

Over a week before Moore's 100th birthday, so many cards had been sent to him that Royal Mail had had to introduce dedicated sorting facilities and around 20 volunteers were recruited to open and display them, at the local Bedford School.[56][57] By his birthday over 140,000 cards had been received.[58][59]

Mock-up of Royal Mail's Captain Tom Moore postmark, as used 26 April–1 May 2020

Royal Mail also announced that all stamped post between 26 April and 1 May will be postmarked "Happy 100th Birthday Captain Thomas Moore NHS fundraising hero 30th April 2020".

On the morning of his birthday, a Hawker Hurricane and a Spitfire from the Royal Air Force's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight performed a flypast over Moore's house.[59]

Michael Ball appeared live on BBC Breakfast to sing "Happy Birthday to You" to Moore.[59]

Namesakes

The Keighley Bus Company named one of their Optare Versa buses Captain Tom Moore on 20 April, and reprogrammed the electronic displays to show a "Thank You Captain Tom" message intermittently in between the vehicle's route and destination. A plaque inside the bus gives further information of Moore's life and fundraising.[60] Other buses in the town, and across parent company Transdev Blazefield, displayed an intermittent "Thank You NHS" message. Alex Hornby, chief executive of Transdev Blazefield, described the vehicle as the "pride of the fleet" in dedication to Moore, thanking him for his fundraising efforts.[61] On 25 April, bus company Stagecoach East, which runs services in Bedford where Moore now lives, named one of their Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC double-decker buses Captain Tom Moore.[62]

On 29 April Great Western Railway named a Class 800 train, 800 025, Captain Tom Moore.[63]

Also, in late April, West Midlands Police named a police dog puppy Captain Tom Moore, the name being an "overwhelming favourite" in an online vote to name dogs after "NHS heroes".[64] The dog, a Dutch Herder, was chosen as his father was, like Moore, born and bred in Yorkshire.[64] World Horse Welfare named a foal, recently born at its base in Thetford, Captain Tom, after a poll on social media.[65]

Similar fundraising efforts

Moore's success inspired a number of other people to raise funds by walking, including a six-year-old Bristol boy with spina bifida, who was only recently able to walk for the first time and aimed to raise £99 by walking ten metres, but in the end achieved almost £195,000;[66][67] a 13-year old stroke survivor who walked on a treadmill; a young boy who is non-verbal through autism, but wrote down that he wanted to help, and former Scotland international rugby player Mike Biggar, who survived a major brain injury in a 1992 car crash and raised nearly £25,000 by walking 100 steps.[68][69]

Retired Welsh farmer Rhythwyn Evans raised funds[70] by walking 91 laps of his bungalow in Silian, Ceredigion, on his 91st birthday on 18 April. Evans said that his walk was "inspired by and in solidarity with Captain Tom Moore" and that he aimed to raise £1,000 for his local health board "to give something back to the community", having lived to a "ripe old age". Evans completed the laps before 17:30 and quipped that his next aim was to get "a good night's sleep!"[71][72] As of 22 April, Evans had raised over £35,000.[73][74]

A nine year old boy with cerebral palsy also raised £12,000. He uses a walking frame to walk and was only managing 50 metres a day before he started. He is now walking 750m daily and intends to complete the equivalent of a full marathon.[75]

Personal life

Moore married Pamela in 1968,[76] and they had two daughters,[76] Lucy[77] and Hannah. Pamela died in 2006.[15] Moore has lived with Hannah, her husband, and two grandchildren, in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire since 2008.[10] He also has two other grandchildren.[2] His great-nephew is a paediatric junior doctor at East Surrey Hospital.[78]

In recent years, he has received treatment from the NHS for skin cancer and, in 2018, a broken hip and other serious injuries, following a fall.[2][15][18][79][80] He has also had a hip replacement and two knee replacements.[78]

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