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02.02.2021 / 22:32
Captain Sir Tom Moore: How a war hero became the face of Britain’s pandemic spirit
On Monday 6 April 2020 - exactly two weeks after Boris Johnson stood behind a podium and told England it was going into a historically-unprecedented national lockdown - most of us were licking our wounds with banana bread and Zoom quizzes. But at a family home in Bedfordshire, 99-year-old Captain Tom Moore had decided, with the help of a walking frame, to start pacing 25-metre lengths of his back garden, ten times per day, in a bid to raise money for NHS Charities Together.