Captain Tom
British Army officer and fundraiser (1920–2021)
- Audience1.4K
- Fame64.6
- Momentum0.0
- Audience1.4K
- Fame64.6
- Momentum0.0
- Founders rank#74
- Wikipedia7K
United KingdomHe walked a hundred laps of his garden at 99, aiming to raise a thousand pounds for pandemic health workers. The world sent him thirty-two million.
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Thomas Moore served in India and Burma during the Second World War, later instructing others in armoured warfare before a postwar career running a concrete company and racing motorcycles. On 6 April 2020, during Britain's first COVID-19 lockdown, he began walking 100 lengths of his garden to raise £1,000 for NHS Charities Together before his 100th birthday on 30 April. Over 24 days he became a fixture on British screens, attracting over 1.5 million individual donations that passed £32.79 million by the close of his birthday campaign. He recorded "You'll Never Walk Alone" with Michael Ball — it…
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