But he added: “I can not remember at all that I was scared at the time.”
Mr. Moore returned home after the war and built a comfortable life as a manager of a concrete business. He remained energetic until the late 90s, mowing the lawn, tending a greenhouse and driving his own car. But two years ago he fell into his kitchen, broke his hip and a rib and stabbed a lung.
His hospitalization appreciated him for the doctors and nurses of the National Health Service. Since the service struggled last year with an influx of coronavirus patients, it was a worthy cause to raise money for its beleagured staff.
“Never in 100 years, when we started, did we expect this sum to raise money,” he said. Moore said.
Part of the money he raised is used to create therapeutic facilities for doctors and nurses to decompress after treating Covid patients. Mr. Moore said he saw his fundraising as a way to support health workers, just as he remembered that Britons supported him and his fellow soldiers during the war.
“At that time, the people my age were fighting on the front line and the general public was standing behind us,” he said. Moore said. ‘In this case, the doctors and nurses and all the medical people are the front line. It’s my generation to back it up, just as we were backed up. ”
Even after he turned 100, Mr. Moore does not lose his sense of adventure. In addition to Barbados, he expressed a desire to return to India.
“It’s something I would like to do, but at the age of 100,” he practically said, “you have a certain time limit.”