What did Captain Tom do in the war? Updated: 27 Feb 2021, 13:43 CAPTAIN Tom Moore has tragically died aged 100 after a Covid battle. What did Captain Tom do in the war? Tom Moore enlisted into the eighth battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (8 DWR), an infantry unit that was converted to operate Churchill tanks as part of the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC). He was selected for officer training and rose to the rank of captain, later being posted to 9 DWR in India. He served and fought in the Arakan in western Burma, later renamed Rakhine State. After this, he went with his regiment to Sumatra after the Japanese surrender in 1945 following the dropping of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.