Captain Sir Tom Moore’s selfless final act reveals the generous kind of man he was

Captain Sir Tom Moore’s selfless final act has been revealed by his family.

The war veteran, who died in February at the age of 100, expressed his final wishes in a six-page document in June 2020.

In April 2020, the then 99-year-old Captain Tom went viral when he decided to walk 100 lengths of his garden to raise £1,000 for health service charities. 

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“One small soul like me won’t make much difference,” he famously said in his first TV interview, as per the BBC.

However, he couldn’t have been more mistaken.

By the time he closed his fundraising page at midnight on his 100th birthday, Captain Tom had raised more than £32m for NHS charities from more than one-and-a-half-million global donors.

For those trapped at home during the first national lockdown, Captain Tom quickly became a symbol of hope, resilience and national unity, too.

But that was just the beginning – Captain Tom was catapulted into global stardom, with a knighthood, a personal message from the Queen, and an RAF flypast to mark his 100th birthday soon following.

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He even became the oldest person ever to score a number one single in the UK, when he and Michael Ball sang a cover of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone,’ which raised even more money for the NHS.

So, of course, the country was devastated when Captain Tom’s daughters announced his death on February 2nd.

Hannah Ingram-Moore and Lucy Teixeira said they ‘shared laughter and tears’ with their father in their final few hours together before adding that the last year of their father’s life had been ‘nothing short of remarkable’.

And now, nearly four months on, the details of his will have been revealed.

Rest in peace, Captain Sir Tom Moore.