At the age of 50, Captain Tom Moore was coming to the end of a successful military career and had given up hope of finding true love.
But shortly after starting his new job as a salesman in the UK he met a beautiful office manager who would quickly become his wife.
Pamela was 35 when they first met, and Captain Tom said she "looked like model". Recalling their first meeting, he said: "As it so happened, the office manager in Gravesend was a rather attractive young lady – she looked terrific to me, like a model – so I had to do various trips and, shall we say, the attraction with the office manager became stronger and I eventually married her." They tied the knot in 1968 and went on to have two daughters - Lucy and Hannah.
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