Walk this way for the Captain Tom Museum
CAPTAIN Sir Tom Moore’s personal effects could go on show to the public in a museum, his family has revealed.
Some of the NHS fund-raiser’s most recognisable possessions, including his medals, smart jackets and ties, and wheeled walker could form the centrepiece of an exhibition.
Details emerged as relatives marked today’s anniversary of the start of his charity walks – when he raised £38. million by doing 100 laps of his garden – by announcing plans for a fundraising event.
Captain Tom 100 invites people to carry out a challenge, such as climbing the stairs 100 times or baking 100 cakes.
Events will take place from April 30, which would have been the Second World
War veteran’s 101st birthday, over the bank holiday weekend to May 3.
He had discussed the initiative before his death in February from Covid-1 . Captain Tom’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore told of the ‘deafening silence’ in the family’s Bedfordshire home since then.
She revealed how he slipped away in hospital as she and her children Benjie and Georgia held his hands with his other daughter Lucy Teixeira on a video call. ‘It was so calm and peaceful,’ she added.
Mrs Ingram-Moore said the family wants to share his memory in an exhibition with the public who donated to his appeal.
‘Our hope is all of these things are shown in a museum so everyone can share them,’ she said.
For details of the fundraising challenge, see www.captaintom100.com.