Tag: Goose Green
Goose GreenFifty experts are mine-clearing three areas next to Falklands’ capital
The BACTEC team is now fully deployed in the Falkland Islands clearing three minefields: two in the vicinity of Mile Pond and Mullet creek and the third south of the water tanks on the Stanley to Darwin and Goose Green Road. The mine-clearance project for these areas should be over by the end of March.
Son of Falklands’ war hero will take command of British troops in Afghanistan
The son of Falkland Islands war hero Colonel ‘H’ Jones is to take command of Britain’s 9.000 troops in Afghanistan, reports the Daily Mail. Brigadier Rupert Jones was 13 when his father died during a one-man charge on an Argentine trench in the Battle of Goose Green in 1982, for which he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
Falklands’ farms helped with wool prices rapidly moving to wind energy
Electricity generated from wind is spreading across the Falkland Islands with two large farms Goose Green and Fitzroy preparing to be the next to have turbines, inverters and batteries installed.
Stanley residents who witnessed Liberation Day meet for a “Reception to Reflection”
Of the 600 residents who were living in Stanley on 14th June 1982 when the Argentine surrender to the British Task Force, and the end of the Falklands conflict, 200 remain in the Islands. On 15th June 2012 a large number of those left gathered to reflect on the events of 30 years ago.
Controversial plan to excavate Falklands’ conflict battlefields
A television archaeologist has revealed plans to excavate the battlefields of the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict. The initiative belongs to Glasgow University academic Dr Tony Pollard who is preparing the major project.
