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The Falklands War ended this day 1982.
The Falklands War was a 1982 war between Argentina and the United Kingdom that resulted from a dispute over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It began on Friday 2 April 1982 when Argentine forces invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. The British government dispatched a naval task force to retake the islands, with the resulting conflict ending with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982. During the conflict, 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel and 3 Falkland Islanders died.
Some Welsh connections;
* Lieutenant Colonel H. Jones (his mother Olwen Pritchard, was Welsh) the commanding officer of 2 Para was killed at the head of his battalion while charging into the well-prepared Argentine positions. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
* During the build up to an offensive against Stanley, the resulting confusion of an uncoordinated advance to the disembarkation point of Bluff Cove had left the Welsh Guards on the landing ships RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristan, as sitting targets in Port Pleasant without defence escorts for almost 2 days. They became subject to Argentine air assaults which killed 32 of them and left 150 suffering burns and other injuries, including Simon Weston. The disaster provided the world with some of the most sobering images of the war as Navy helicopters hovered in thick smoke trying to winch survivors to safety.
The History of Wales.
Today is the 38th Anniversary of the end of the Falklands War. Six years ago to mark the anniversary, the Falkland Islanders Resistance Memorial and Falklands Memorial Way were dedicated in the Allied Special Forces Memorial Grove at the Arboretum.
The islander experience of the conflict is rarely mentioned, despite many of them performing brave actions in defiance of the invaders prior to the arrival of British forces to liberate the islands. Many islanders were involved in spying, acts of sabotage and devised countless other means of disrupting the Argentinian forces. After British troops arrived they supplied vehicles, food and clothing, as well as gathering vital intelligence and offering comfort to injured troops, all often under enemy fire.
Three islanders lost their lives in the conflict, when at approximately midnight on 11 June 1982 a shell from a British warship hit a house in Port Stanley. Mary Goodwin, Susan Whitley and Doreen Bonner are commemorated by plaques within the grove.
National Memorial Arboretum.
1982 thirty-eight years ago, Britain had been at war. The biggest British task force since WWII headed towards the Falkland Islands. Thirty nine of Britain’s finest Royal Navy warships and submarines, supported by forty Merchant ships of various kinds amassed, nicknamed STUFT ships (Ships Taken Up From Trade). These were the troop ships, hospital ships, ammunition and store carriers, tankers full of aviation spirit, petrol, FFO (Fuel furnace oil for the Royal Navy), food, medicine, salvage tugs and even water carriers in case the Argentinians had poisoned the local water. Alongside these ships were a further twenty-two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) manned by personnel from the MN, RN and RAF. The Argentinian Government did not believe Britain would fight for these Islands, but fight they did and by the 14th June 1982 the Argentine forces had surrendered. 255 British service personnel and three Falkland Island civilians had paid the ultimate price for freedom.
Lest We Forget!!
Billy McGee.
The Falklands War was a 1982 war between Argentina and the United Kingdom that resulted from a dispute over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It began on Friday 2 April 1982 when Argentine forces invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. The British government dispatched a naval task force to retake the islands, with the resulting conflict ending with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982. During the conflict, 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel and 3 Falkland Islanders died.
Some Welsh connections;
* Lieutenant Colonel H. Jones (his mother Olwen Pritchard, was Welsh) the commanding officer of 2 Para was killed at the head of his battalion while charging into the well-prepared Argentine positions. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
* During the build up to an offensive against Stanley, the resulting confusion of an uncoordinated advance to the disembarkation point of Bluff Cove had left the Welsh Guards on the landing ships RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristan, as sitting targets in Port Pleasant without defence escorts for almost 2 days. They became subject to Argentine air assaults which killed 32 of them and left 150 suffering burns and other injuries, including Simon Weston. The disaster provided the world with some of the most sobering images of the war as Navy helicopters hovered in thick smoke trying to winch survivors to safety.
The History of Wales.
Today is the 38th Anniversary of the end of the Falklands War. Six years ago to mark the anniversary, the Falkland Islanders Resistance Memorial and Falklands Memorial Way were dedicated in the Allied Special Forces Memorial Grove at the Arboretum.
The islander experience of the conflict is rarely mentioned, despite many of them performing brave actions in defiance of the invaders prior to the arrival of British forces to liberate the islands. Many islanders were involved in spying, acts of sabotage and devised countless other means of disrupting the Argentinian forces. After British troops arrived they supplied vehicles, food and clothing, as well as gathering vital intelligence and offering comfort to injured troops, all often under enemy fire.
Three islanders lost their lives in the conflict, when at approximately midnight on 11 June 1982 a shell from a British warship hit a house in Port Stanley. Mary Goodwin, Susan Whitley and Doreen Bonner are commemorated by plaques within the grove.
National Memorial Arboretum.
1982 thirty-eight years ago, Britain had been at war. The biggest British task force since WWII headed towards the Falkland Islands. Thirty nine of Britain’s finest Royal Navy warships and submarines, supported by forty Merchant ships of various kinds amassed, nicknamed STUFT ships (Ships Taken Up From Trade). These were the troop ships, hospital ships, ammunition and store carriers, tankers full of aviation spirit, petrol, FFO (Fuel furnace oil for the Royal Navy), food, medicine, salvage tugs and even water carriers in case the Argentinians had poisoned the local water. Alongside these ships were a further twenty-two ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) manned by personnel from the MN, RN and RAF. The Argentinian Government did not believe Britain would fight for these Islands, but fight they did and by the 14th June 1982 the Argentine forces had surrendered. 255 British service personnel and three Falkland Island civilians had paid the ultimate price for freedom.
Lest We Forget!!
Billy McGee.