Captain Tom Moore’s legacy will be celebrated with special April 30 event

Captain Tom Moore‘s life will be celebrated with a worldwide event on what would have been his 101st birthday, his daughter revealed today. 

Hannah Ingram-Moore took to Twitter to share a message of thanks for the ‘continuing support and compassion’ the family has been shown following the death of her father. 

Captain Tom, who was laid to rest at a small family funeral service on Saturday, died with coronavirus on February 2 after being admitted to Bedford Hospital days earlier. 

Ms Ingram-Moore today revealed that her father’s ‘life and spirit’ will be commemorated with a worldwide event on April 30 – what would have been his 101st birthday.  

She added that his funeral, which opened with the rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone that he recorded with Michael Ball and the NHS Voices of Care Choir, would have ‘had him bursting with pride.’ 

Captain Tom Moore ‘s life will be celebrated with a worldwide event on what would have been his 101st birthday, his daughter revealed today. Pictured: Captain Tom last year 

Hannah Ingram-Moore took to Twitter to share a message of thanks for the ‘continuing support and compassion’ the family has been shown following the death of her father 

In a Twitter post on Captain Tom’s account, she said: ‘So many of you have asked what will be done to commemorate the life and spirit of my father Captain Tom and we’ve had some amazing suggestions.

‘The Captain Tom Foundation will be celebrating his life on what would have been his 101st birthday.

‘We will make sure it is an event that everyone – in the UK and around the world – can get involved in and it will truly celebrate his generosity of spirit, the hope and joy he brought to millions and his sense of fun.’  

War hero Captain Tom inspired countless people across the UK by valiantly raising more than £32million for the NHS at the height of the pandemic last year by doing 100 laps of his garden.  

Ms Ingram-Moore added: ‘Colin, Benjie, Georgia and I enjoyed the most amazing, multi-generational life journey with my father and could never have predicted how the last year of his life could inspire so many others.

His funeral was attended by eight members of his immediate family – his two daughters Ms Ingram-Moore (right) and Lucy Teixeira (left), four grandchildren and his sons-in-law

‘The messages you have left in the book of condolence are truly wonderful and it is deeply moving to read how he helped others through this time.

‘I am so glad we got the opportunity to share his message of hope with the world. In the last few months he often spoke of how proud he felt at being able to leave behind the growing legacy of his Foundation.’ 

The Captain Tom Moore Foundation, which will organise the April 30 event, has a mission to ‘inspire hope’ and help others ‘see and believe there is always hope, however dark things may seem.’  

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