Captain Sir Tom Moore – Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services
th year he started fundraising for the NHS, aiming to raise £100 by his 100 th birthday. In the end he raised nearly £40 million, including charitable tax relief. Bill Slim He became a national treasure, but then died, it would seem of pneumonia, after contracting Covid. Sir Tom was a veteran, who did good work in the Arakan with Bill Slim’s 14 th Army. His coolness and old-fashioned sang-froid were an inspiration to the entire nation, apart that is from one nutty Church of England curate, who complained that Sir Tom was white and British. A lot of the blokes in the British Army were. ...