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Captain Thomas Moore
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- Jan 7, 2026
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Captain Sir Thomas Moore (30 April 1920 – 2 February 2021), more popularly known as Captain Tom , was a British Army officer and fundraiser . He made international headlines in April 2020 when he raised money for charity in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic . He 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 during the first COVID-19 national lockdown, Moore began to walk 100 lengths of his garden in aid of NHS Charities Together , with the goal of raising £1,000 by his 100th birthday on 30 April. In the 24-day course of his fundraising, he made many media appearances and became a household name in the UK, earning a number of accolades and attracting over 1.5 million individual donations.