WWII veteran who walked into record books

LONDON – Captain Sir Tom Moore, who has died aged 100, became a national hero in Britain by walking laps of his garden during last year’s coronavirus lockdown to raise funds for healthcare charities.

By the end of the feat, the World War II veteran had raised a record-breaking pound sterling33 million ($45 million, 37.4 million euros).

But when he set out on his sponsored walk, Moore’s aim was modest: to raise pound sterling1,000 as a “thank you” for the treatment he received for skin cancer and a broken hip.

He set a goal of completing 100 lengths of his 25-metre (82-foot) garden in Marston Moretaine, between Bedford and Milton Keynes in southern England, by the time of his 100th birthday.

But his walk captured the public’s imagination and the…