Arise, Captain Sir Thomas Moore

[Cold]

A bit of good news to end the week.

This afternoon, The Queen conferred the Honour of Knighthood to Captain Sir Thomas Moore in a ceremony at Windsor Castle for his recent fundraising efforts.

Cheers Tom. Good work.

[cloggy]

Lovely and heartwarming.

[citizensm1th]

Standing tall at 100, good effort sir.

[808 Estate]

Bloody marvellous.

[DickyC]

194 between them.

Marvellous.

[Gecko1978]

Fairly spectacular end to his life, fought in ww2, lives to 100 raises 30m for charity and gets a knighthood

[Robertj21a]

Cold said:

A bit of good news to end the week.

This afternoon, The Queen conferred the Honour of Knighthood to Captain Sir Thomas Moore in a ceremony at Windsor Castle for his recent fundraising efforts.

Cheers Tom. Good work.

Bloody marvellous stuff. What a superb example to others.

[ShampooEfficient]

Bloody excellent!

I do hope he didn't try any laps of the garden at Buck House though... Might take a while longer.

[anonymous-user]

[citizensm1th]

ShampooEfficient said:

Bloody excellent!

I do hope he didn't try any laps of the garden at Buck House though... Might take a while longer.

yep that walk from Windsor alone will take him a while

[rover 623gsi]

Cool

[anonymous-user]

[PorkInsider]

Great stuff!

Well deserved, Captain Sir Tom.

Edited by PorkInsider on Friday 17th July 20:42

[21TonyK]

The focus on the amount raised overshadows the fact that some bloke at 100 decided to try to raise money for the NHS charities off his own bat. He then proceeded to push to raise 32M. That's pretty special by any ones measure.

(ignore the fact that the NHS probably looses that every day in efficiencies let alone the public sector as a whole)

Sir Tom. You embody everything young people should aspire to be.

[Gromm]

Fantastic! And absolutely deserved recognition.

[darreni]

cloggy said:

Lovely and heartwarming.

It certainly is. That picture makes me smile.

That the Queen has chosen to personally perform the ceremony is just fantastic.

[Gareth79]

21TonyK said:

(ignore the fact that the NHS probably looses that every day in efficiencies let alone the public sector as a whole)

The NHS Charities Together is a separate organisation thankfully - the money won't disappear into a black hole, it will (mostly) be spent on projects to improve the patient experience, rather than directly on care.

[Gareth79]

darreni said:

cloggy said:

Lovely and heartwarming.

It certainly is. That picture makes me smile.

That the Queen has chosen to personally perform the ceremony is just fantastic.

She keeps a keen eye on the news, I reckon it was the most rewarding knighthood of her reign.

[rambo19]

Gareth79 said:

She keeps a keen eye on the news, I reckon it was the most rewarding knighthood of her reign.

Agree.
100% she said she would be the only one who would do it!

[irc]

Gecko1978 said:

Fairly spectacular end to his life, fought in ww2, lives to 100 raises 30m for charity and gets a knighthood

Also becomes oldest person with a number 1 record.