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Tom Moore
Sign in to saveAlso known as Thomas Moore, Captain Tom Moore, Colonel Tom, Tommy Moore, Captain Tom, Sir Tom Moore
British Army officer and fundraiser (1920–2021)
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Thomas Moore, known by the nickname Captain Tom, was a British soldier and fundraiser born in Keighley on April 30, 1920. He served in the British Army during World War II, participating in the Burma Campaign 1944–1945 and the Battle of Ramree Island. His military service earned him the ranks of captain and colonel, as well as the 1939–45 Star, Burma Star, War Medal 1939–1945, and Defence Medal. Moore also worked as a general manager and tankman.
Moore had two children and held citizenship in the United Kingdom. He was diagnosed with skin cancer, a hip fracture, and COVID-19. He died on February 2, 2021, with the cause of death listed as COVID-19. His official website is captaintom.org.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 29
Top works
- Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age
- Lost Continent of Eyes
- Requiem : Visions of Angels, Demons, Aliens, and Ourselves
- Shield of Stars
- Why I Love You, Patty
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Keighley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Known for
- Captain Tom: Where Did the Money Go? — Self (archive footage)2023
- The Life and Times of Captain Sir Tom — Self2020
- Countryfile — Self1988
- Captain Tom: We Salute You — Self (archive footage)
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1920
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,183
- Total plays
- 4,488
Tags
1- Tom Moore is indie acoustic rock from the banks of Lake Monroe USA. His newest release, "It Took Five Years but Now We're Doing Fine [EP]" is available now for digital download at http://tommooremusic.com/ Tom Moore was born in Warwickshire, England. His love for music began to develop at a young age as he grew up listening to the music of The Beatles, Paul Simon, and Gilbert O'Sullivan. Inspired by the folks songs his father performed from the likes of Ralph McTell and James Taylor, Tom s
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 76
- Cited by
- 4,415
Research areas
Most cited works
- Genomic imprinting in mammalian development: a parental tug-of-war1991 · 1,193 cit
- Genomic imprinting in mammalian development: a parental tug-of-war1991 · 570 cit
- Placental contribution to the origins of sexual dimorphism in health and diseases: sex chromosomes and epigenetics2013 · 336 cit
- Multiple imprinted sense and antisense transcripts, differential methylation and tandem repeats in a putative imprinting control region upstream of mouse <i>Igf2</i>1997 · 244 cit
- Deletion of a silencer element in Igf2 results in loss of imprinting independent of H192000 · 195 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,510x
- Particle mesh Ewald: An <i>N</i>⋅log(<i>N</i>) method for Ewald sums in large systems
· 1993 · cited 29,710x
- A Global Measure of Perceived Stress
· 1983 · cited 25,810x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,655x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,576x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Thomas Moore , ( 1920-04-30 ) 30 April 1920, Keighley , West Riding of Yorkshire , England
- Died
- 2 February 2021 (2021-02-02) (aged 100), Bedford , Bedfordshire , England
- Buried
- Morton Cemetery, Riddlesden , Keighley
- Awards
- Pride of Britain York Medal Knight Bachelor
- Alma mater
- Keighley Grammar School
- Spouses
- Billie ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1949 , annulled ) Pamela ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. January 1968</span>"}]]}'>1968 ; died 2006 )
- Allegiance
- United Kingdom
- Branch
- British Army
- Service years
- 1940–1946
- Rank
- Captain Honorary Colonel , Army Foundation College (from 2020)
- Unit
- Duke of Wellington's Regiment 145th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps 146th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps
- Conflicts
- Second World War Burma campaign
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Captain Sir Thomas Moore (30 April 1920 – 2 February 2021), more popularly known as Captain Tom, was a British Army officer and fundraiser. He made international headlines in April 2020 when he raised money for charity in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic. He served in India and the Burma campaign during the Second World War, and later became an instructor in armoured warfare. After the war, he worked as managing director of a concrete company and was an avid motorcycle racer.
On 6 April 2020, at the age of 99 during the first COVID-19 national lockdown, Moore began to walk 100 lengths of his garden in aid of NHS Charities Together, with the goal of raising £1,000 by his 100th birthday on 30 April. In the 24-day course of his fundraising, he made many media appearances and became a household name in the UK, earning a number of accolades and attracting over 1.5 million individual donations.
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