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Captain Sir Tom Moore Would Have Been Broken if He Knew About Cruel Abuse, Says Daughter

Daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore has blasted the "vile minority" who criticised a family trip to the Caribbean, which took place just over a month before her father passed away

Daily Mirror / BBC UK, 17 FEB, 2021.





Sir Tom raised more than £32million for the NHS during the first lockdown (Image: Getty Images)


Captain Sir Tom Moore, who died with coronavirus earlier this month, has left "a legacy he could never have imagined", his daughter has said.

The 100-year-old Army veteran, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden, died in Bedford Hospital on 2 February.







Hannah Ingram-Moore said her father had been determined to beat the virus and continue raising funds.


"For him this was all about 'tomorrow will be a good day' and being hopeful."

Capt Sir Tom had tested positive for Covid-19 the week before he was admitted to hospital.

His family said due to other medication he was receiving for pneumonia, he was unable to be vaccinated.

Captain Sir Tom Moore's heart would have been "broken" if he had known about the trolling his family received in the days leading up to his death, his daughter has said.

Hannah Ingram-Moore has blasted the "vile minority" who criticised a trip to the Caribbean before Christmas while discussing her father's legacy.

She said she and other relatives kept the hurtful comments away from Sir Tom, who passed away in hospital on February 2 after testing positive for coronavirus.

The war veteran captured the hearts of the nation when he raised more than £32million for the NHS during the first lockdown by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday.

Sir Tom, from Bedfordshire, managed to visit Barbados shortly before his death, which his family said was a bucket list trip for the centenarian

But the holiday drew ire from certain corners of the internet - which Ms Ingram-Moore said relatives decided to keep from her father in his dying days.

She told BBC Breakfast: "I couldn't tell him.

"I think it would have broken his heart, honestly, if we'd said to him people are hating us.

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"Because how do you rationalise to a 100-year-old man that something so incredibly good can attract such horror, so we contained it within the four of us and we said we wouldn't play to...that vile minority, we wouldn't play to them, we're not, because we are talking to the massive majority of people who we connect with."






Ms Ingram-Moore added that Sir Tom had a wonderful time on the holiday.



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