Captain Sir Tom has been elevated to a hero that the UK needs at this time. He walked 100 laps of his home during the last lockdown to raise £1000 for the NHS, he raised nearly £40 million.
Already a war hero, he was doing something again that the public liked and gave them a sense of hope.
He was Knighted and promoted to honorary Colonel, he received 200,000 cards on his 100th birthday.
He was not in good health and as stated, was hospitalised with pneumonia on NYE, the fact that he contracted CV-19 and it made his condition worse or that it may have got him in the end is irrelevant.
NHS England's chief nursing officer, Ruth May, said Captain Sir Tom was "the model of all that has been good about our country's response to COVID-19".
"People rightly marvel at the tens of millions of pounds Captain Sir Tom raised for the NHS," she tweeted.
"For me, his biggest achievement and most important contribution to helping my fellow nurses, doctors and all those in the NHS responding to coronavirus, has been how he brought the country together and gave us all a boost when we most needed it."
Britain's Parliament also paid tribute, with the House of Commons passing condolences to Captain Sir Tom's family, while flags flew at half mast at Downing Street.
The amount of friends of mine in N Ireland who have changed their profile picture to a picture of Sir Tom is staggering.
Its the one case of death by CV-19 that the diagnosis doesn't really matter, the fact he fought for Britain and fought to raise money for the fight against coronavirus has made him a national hero.
The fact he had contracted it in the end just adds to the extraordinary life of this gentleman.