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Captain Sir Tom Moore: My funeral would once have made a line in the local paper

Sir Tom’s funeral will be held on Saturday.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
February 22, 2021
in News
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Captain Sir Tom Moore wrote about his own death in a book, reflecting that it was “odd and rather touching” that people he had never met might weep.

The Second World War veteran and NHS fundraiser hoped to release the book, Captain Tom’s Life Lessons, just before his 101st birthday.

He died at Bedford Hospital on February 2 after testing positive for Covid-19.

His family released the book’s final chapter, titled Epilogue, as they said his funeral will be held on Saturday.

Captain Sir Tom Moore
Captain Tom’s Life Lessons will be published on April 2 (Aaron Chown/PA)

In the chapter, Sir Tom said: “Previously, my funeral would have made one little line in the local newspaper and been attended by only a handful of people, but I expect there’ll be a few more now.

“Someone will have to make extra cake and sandwiches, and it won’t be me.

“I want the service to end with My Way by Frank Sinatra, because I always did things my way and especially like the line about having too few regrets to mention.

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“It’s odd and rather touching to think that people might weep over my passing – strangers I’ve never even met.

Own funeral

“If I can, I’d like to watch my own funeral from a distance.

“That would be quite the joke as I looked down and chuckled at everyone making a lot of fuss over me.”

Sir Tom, who lived with one of his daughters and her family in Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire, went on: “Even though I have a space reserved in the village churchyard, I want to be cremated and my ashes taken back to Yorkshire to be with my parents and grandparents in the Moore family plot.

“I wouldn’t mind having a little white headstone somewhere to mark my existence, a bit like the ones they have in military cemeteries.

“Nothing too fancy.”

He said he had also given thought to his epitaph, as several people had asked him.

“When I was younger I enjoyed listening to The Goon Show on the wireless, and one of the comedians who always made me laugh the hardest was Spike Milligan,” he said.

Wounded

“Like me, he fought in the Second World War, but was wounded in Italy.

“When he died at the age of 83, he wrote his own epitaph, which was engraved in Gaelic on his headstone.

“It reads: ‘I told you I was ill’.

“This always made me laugh, so I think I’d ask for the simple inscription of my name, the dates of my earthly span, and the words: ‘I told you I was old’.”

Captain Tom’s Life Lessons will be published on April 2.

Related: Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter had to hide online abuse because it would have “broken his heart”

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