War veteran raises more than £12 million for UK health workers
A National Health Service van in the UK displaying a public service message on coronavirus. Tom Moore, a World War II veteran who served in India, says while ‘in the last war it was soldiers in uniform on the frontline. This time our army are the doctors and nurses uniforms’. – EPA pic, April 16, 2020.
A 99-year-old British World War II veteran has raised more than £12 million in his fundraising challenge for frontline health workers by walking laps on his garden. Tom Moore, a captain who served in India, is being sponsored to complete 100 lengths of his 25m garden in time for his 100th birthday at the end of the month.
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