Tag: British Armed Forces

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 10:03 UTC

  Falklands' Veteran hero paratrooper who acted on a BBC show on the war dies in air crash

  

  An inquest has been opened into the death of Chris Waddington, the Falklands War Veteran who was tragically killed in a plane crash in Herefordshire reports the HerefordTimes. The Parachute Regiment veteran, who served for more than 20 years in the British Armed Forces, was killed five days before his 60th birthday when the plane he was flying hit the ground at Shobdon Airfield, near Leominster.

• Monday, April 1st 2019 - 06:39 UTC

  Falkland Islands Tree Planting At RAF Mount Pleasant Fails To Branch Out

  

  Personnel deployed in the Falkland Islands are met by the sight of trees, but they aren’t just any old trees, these trees grow …er, sideways. British Armed Forces personnel are pleasantly surprised upon arrival at their final destination when posted to RAF Mount Pleasant Complex on the windswept archipelago.

• Friday, August 3rd 2018 - 09:53 UTC

  British Armed Forces face consultation review of the Troubles

  

  The new head of the armed forces says he will not allow British soldiers to be “chased” by people making “vexatious claims” about their conduct in the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Chief of the Defense Staff General Sir Nick Carter told the BBC serving and former service personnel should face action for “genuine” wrongdoing, but he vowed groundless cases “will not happen on my watch”.

• Thursday, June 15th 2017 - 11:15 UTC

  Liberation Day Reception, London Gratitude for the Past, Hope for the Future

  

  Falkland Islanders and their supporters met in London on the 13th of June for the annual Liberation Day Reception. This time it was special - it marked the 35th anniversary of the war. Guest of honour was Sir Alan Duncan, just re-appointed as Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for the Falklands; this was his first outside engagement.

• Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 02:20 UTC

  Gibraltar invited to high level security briefing at Ministry of Defense in London

  

  Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has been invited to attend a high level security briefing at the Ministry of Defense in London next week, part of a drive by the British Government to foster closer links with the Government of Gibraltar.

• Friday, June 14th 2013 - 20:08 UTC

  Falklands turns out to commemorate Liberation Day and pay tribute to British Forces

  

  The most important date in the recent history of the Falkland Islands was commemorated on Friday, June 14 by Falkland Islanders and veterans of the 1982 war.