Final goodbyes paid to Captain Sir Tom Moore at moving funeral service - The Rugby Observer

Final goodbyes paid to Captain Sir Tom Moore at moving funeral service

Rugby Editorial 27th Feb, 2021   0

Tributes have been paid to Captain Sir Tom Moore by his family at his funeral today (Saturday 27th February).

Members of the First Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment (1 YORKS) carried out a full military funeral for the British Army veteran in Bedford.

Soldiers from 1 YORKS carried the coffin of Captain Sir Tom, as well as laying on an honour guard and a three volley salute from a firing party at the small family funeral at the Bedford Crematorium.

The Yorkshire Regiment is an antecedent of Captain Tom’s former unit, the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, with whom he served in North Africa in the Second World War.




Just eight members of Sir Tom’s immediate family attended the funeral due to coronavirus restrictions.

After a rendition of Captain Sir Tom’s charity single – a version of You’ll Never Walk Alone sung with Michael Ball and the NHS Voices of Care Choir, his daughter Lucy said how proud she was of her father.


She said:  “Daddy, I am so proud of you. You may be gone but your message and your spirit lives on.”

Sir Tom’s other daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore described her father as “a beacon of light and hope to the world.”

A bugler sounded The Last Post when the service concluded and St Mary’s Church in Marston Moretaine, Captain Sir Tom’s home village, led others across the country in ringing their bells one hundred times.

Sir Tom had spent the last few months of his life writing a book and a section was released in which he said he would “like to watch my own funeral from a distance” and laugh at “everyone making a lot of fuss over me.”

“I want the service to end with My Way by Frank Sinatra because I always did things my way and I especially like the line about having too few regrets to mention,” he wrote.

RIP Captain Sir Tom. The nation salutes you.

An RAF Flypast at the funeral of Captain Sir Tom Moore.

 

Photo credits: Sergeant Tom Evans / British Army – © MoD Crown Copyright

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