Captain Tom Moore, 100-year-old hero from the United Kingdom, honored at the funeral

Veteran Moore received a salute from 14 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment and a flypast from a World War II plane.

His Union Flag-draped coffin was carried by soldiers of the regiment to the crematorium in Bedford, East England, past empty pews due to coronavirus restrictions. The soldiers then marched out and left his immediate family for the service, to the sound of Moore singing “You Never Walk Alone” in a charity single he recorded with Michael Ball.

In keeping with the current limitations of the coronavirus, the funeral was attended by his close family: two daughters, Lucy Teixeira and Hannah Ingram-Moore, four grandchildren and his sons-in-law.

“Daddy, I am so proud of you,” said Teixeira, “what you have achieved all your life and especially in the last year. You may be gone, but your message and your spirit lives on. ‘

Lucy said her dad would watch them at the funeral and chuckle and say “don’t be too sad because eventually something has got to get you.” “

Alfie Boe’s performance of “I Vow To Thee My Country” and Dame Vera Lynn’s “The White Cliffs Of Dover” were performed at the moving ceremony.

As soon as Covid-19’s restrictions permit, the family will hang Moore’s ashes in Yorkshire, where he will rest with his parents and grandparents in Moore’s family tomb.

He died in hospital on February 2 after testing positive for Covid-19.

Moore, affectionately known as Captain Tom, raised nearly £ 33 million ($ 45 million) last year by walking laps in his yard. His exploits united a country frozen in confinement and made him an unlikely celebrity late in life, earning him a military promotion, a Queen Elizabeth II knighthood and a number one single.

Moore’s fundraising efforts will long be linked to the fall of the UK last spring, and his death made him one of the most prominent victims of a virus that killed more than 120,000 Britons.