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Capt. Sir Tom Moore

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  1. GRW

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    "Captain Sir Tom Moore's death today aged 100 marks the end of an extraordinary life that saw him go from WWII hero to quiz show star and then a national treasure after walking 100 laps of his garden to raise £33m for the NHS.
    The grandfather-of-four's service in World War Two took him across Asia and the Far East, including tours in India, Burma and Sumatra.
    Back in Blighty, spells as an Army tank instructor were interspersed with work at the family building business - while in his spare time he enjoyed riding motorbikes.
    The Yorkshire grammar school lad was to shoot to national attention in 1983, when he charmed the audience on hit BBC show Blankety Blank.
    Finally, after his heroics during the coronavirus pandemic, he would be knighted by the Queen, made an honorary member of the England cricket team, and be lauded by Britain's best-known celebrities and politicians.
    He also became GQ magazine's oldest cover star and scored a number one hit with Michael Ball in a charity recording of You'll Never Walk Alone.
    Captain Tom was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, on April 30 1920.
    He attended Keighley Grammar School and later completed an apprenticeship as a civil engineer before joining the Army.
    He 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).
    In 1940, 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, since renamed Rakhine State, and went with his regiment to Sumatra after the Japanese surrender.
    After the war, he returned to the UK and worked as an instructor at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle School in Bovington, Dorset.
    He also worked for his family's building company and later became manager at a concrete company."
    www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9215343/The-war-hero-national-treasure-walking-100-laps-garden.html
     
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    Another great Yorkshireman leaves us...Judi Dench and Patrick "engage" Stewart (Captain Picard) are also from Yorkshire...And of course one of my Heroes was from Yorkshire
    Another Captain...Cook
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