Captain Tom's funeral 'will be spectacular' with epitaph to read 'I told you I was old'
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mirror.co.ukCaptain Sir Tom Moore will be given a "quite spectacular" send-off tomorrow - with churches around the country set to ring their bells at noon.
NHS hero Captain Sir Tom, who raised more than £32 million for the NHS with his sponsored walk of his garden in the first lockdown, asked that My Way by Frank Sinatra be played at his funeral.
And his epitaph will read "I told you I was old" - a reference to comedian Spike Milligan, whose gravestone reads "I told you I was ill".
Troops from the Yorkshire Regiment will carry his coffin into crematorium. Captain Sir Tom, who died on February 2 aged 100 after contracting Covid-19, served with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment during the Second World War.
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