Captain Tom Moore, a 100-year-old British fundraising hero, is honored at the funeral

Veteran Moore received a shooting greeting from 14 Yorkshire Regiment soldiers and a fly paste from a World War II aircraft.

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

In line with current coronavirus restrictions, the funeral was attended by his immediate family – two daughters, Lucy Teixeira and Hannah Ingram-Moore, four grandchildren and his sons-in-law.

“Dad, I’m so proud of you,” Teixeira said. “What you’ve achieved all your life and especially in the last year. Maybe you’re gone, but your message and your spirit live on.”

Lucy said her father would watch them laugh and laugh during the funeral, saying, “don’t be too sad, because something has to get you eventually.”

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

As soon as the restrictions of Covid-19 allow it, the Moore family’s ashes will be interned in Yorkshire, where he will rest with his parents and grandparents in the Moore family plot.

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

Moore, affectionately known as Captain Tom, raised almost £ 33 million ($ 45 million) by walking rounds of his garden last year. His activities united a captured country and made him an unlikely celebrity late in life, giving him a military promotion, a knighthood of Queen Elizabeth II and a number one single.

Moore’s fundraising efforts will long be accompanied by diving into the UK in the spring, and his death has made him one of the most slaughtered victims of a virus that claimed the lives of more than 120,000 Britons.