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CAPTAIN Sir Tom Moore’s funeral today will feature a spectacular RAF flight as his family asked supporters to “stay home.”
The veteran’s farewell will be “spectacular” with soldiers carrying the coffin, as well as a salute of arms from his former regiment.
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The C-47 Dakota, part of the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight operating from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, will flypast.
Sir Tom’s centennial celebrations last year included a Spitfire flypast and he was caught hitting the air as he passed.
Soldiers from the Yorkshire Regiment will carry his coffin to the crematorium today, with a firing squad, a bugle and a ceremonial guard also part of the service.
Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said: “In national emergencies, ordinary people do extraordinary things and inspire us all to come together to overcome adversity.
“Few will have heard of Sir Tom before this crisis, but his contribution and example now lives on in all of us.
“The military is immensely proud to contribute to the celebration of his extraordinary life of service.”
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Sir Tom, whose last dismissal is today, served in the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment during World War II.
It later merged with two others from Yorkshire, becoming the Yorkshire Regiment, and Sir Tom was made Honorary Colonel last August.
Six soldiers from the regiment will carry Sir Tom’s coffin to the crematorium near his family’s home in Bedfordshire.
His 52-year-old daughter Lucy Teixeira said the service will be “quite spectacular,” adding: “We will be the eight under Covid restrictions, we will honor it in the best way possible.
“My sister and I have been creating the funeral that my father wanted.
“He was very clear in his wishes and if they had put it in a cardboard box, he would have done it, instead of cutting down a tree.”
She says the family has received many messages from supporters and that it was “wonderful” to see people writing in an online book of condolences.
A group of 14 will each fire three rounds in unison, and a cornet will play The Last Post at the end of private service.
Six representatives from the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, where Sir Tom was appointed Honorary Colonel, will form a ceremonial guard.
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Sir Tom passed away at age 100 at Bedford Hospital on February 2 after testing positive for Covid-19.
The war hero raised over £ 32 million for the NHS with his sponsored walk through his garden at the first closing.
His funeral will be attended by eight members of his immediate family: his two daughters Hannah Ingram-Moore and Lucy Teixeira, four grandchildren and their sons-in-law.
Sir Tom requested that Frank Sinatra’s My Way be performed at his funeral and that his epitaph read ‘I told you I was old’, in reference to the famous epitaph of comedian Spike Milligan ‘I told you I was sick’.
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The family has urged people to support the NHS by staying home.
Once Covid-19 restrictions allow, they will bury Sir Tom’s ashes in Yorkshire, with his parents and grandparents in the Moore family plot.
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