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Captain Tom Moore’s family address backlash for taking him to Barbados just before he died

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Updated 14:44 17 Oct 2023 GMT+1Published 20:39 12 Oct 2023 GMT+1

Captain Tom Moore’s family address backlash for taking him to Barbados just before he died

The Moore family were heavily criticised for taking him on holiday

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

The family of Captain Sir Tom Moore have spoken out about the backlash they faced for taking him on holiday to Barbados shortly before he died.

The World War Two veteran raised £38.9 million for the NHS walking across his garden during the coronavirus pandemic ahead of his 100th birthday.

He died in February 2021 shortly after going on a family holiday to Barbados and in a TalkTV interview with Piers Morgan they spoke about the backlash they received for it.

Speaking on TalkTV, Captain Tom's daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore said: "It was his dream."

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She explained that her father had put together a bucket list including entries like going back to India, jumping out of a plane and watching cricket in Barbados.

Captain Sir Tom Moore died shortly after being on holiday with his family.
JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images

"Finally we found a period of time where we could all go, and we were all invited, and his dream was to go and see the cricketers in Barbados," Hannah Ingram-Moore said of the decision to go on holiday with her father to the Caribbean island.

The family said that doctors had checked him before they went on their holiday and said 'go, Captain Tom - be happy'.

She said they didn't know at the time he had silent pneumonia and that the doctors hadn't picked it up either.

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Colin Ingram, Hannah's husband, said Captain Tom's family had 'never been able to grieve as a family'.

He said: "We’ve never been able to grieve as a family, because we had to grieve with the world."

Featured Image Credit: TALKTV/JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/ Getty Images

Topics: UK News, Captain Tom Moore, Hannah Ingram-Moore

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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