FILE PHOTO: Former British Army Officer Captain Tom Moore looks at a spitfire and hurricane from RAF Coningsby that fly over his house as part of celebration of his 100th birthday and a gesture of appreciation for his fundraising achievements for the NHS, in Bedfordshire, Britain, April 30, 2020.
“Colonel Tom’s fantastic fundraising broke records, inspired the whole country and provided us all with a beacon of light through the fog of coronavirus,” Johnson said on Tuesday. “On behalf of everyone who has been moved by his incredible story, I want to say a huge ‘thank you.’ He’s a true national treasure.”
Last month he quipped that he would find it funny to be known as “Sir Thomas Moore” - a reference to the Tudor statesman Sir Thomas More.“What an honour, and richly deserved; he is absolutely outstanding,” Hannah Ingram-Moore told BBC TV on Wednesday. The honour is the latest bestowed on Moore. For his 100th birthday last month, Queen Elizabeth agreed that he should be made an honorary colonel and he was also made an honorary member of the England cricket team.Reporting by Stephen Addison; editing by William James/Guy Faulconbridge
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Grazie Sir♥️
Sir Tom is among the greatest of a great generation in (a once) Great Britain.
The sterling effort Sir Tom put in raising over £32m for the NHS pales into insignificance when you think we pay over £205m a year in interest alone to PFI corporations for building's we'll never own...
With captain Tom Moore the whole war time generation will be knighted.
So adorable. So epical.
Wholesome 😃
Finally 😁👍♥️👏
Couldn't happen to a more chivalrous gent. 'Arise, Sir Tom!'
One good thing from the shtshow
A hero you are, Sir Tom!