Tag: Falkland War

• Monday, November 12th 2012 - 01:43 UTC

  Sir Rex Hunt, Governor of the Falklands during the Argentine invasion has died

  

  Sir Rex Hunt, the former governor of the Falkland Islands during the Argentine invasion which triggered the South Atlantic conflict of 1982 passed away in England on Remembrance Sunday.

• Sunday, November 11th 2012 - 02:46 UTC

  Thanksgiving service at the Liberation Monument in Stanley

  

  The Memorial service commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Liberation of the Falkland Islands by British Forces, 10 weeks after they were invaded by Argentina. 252 British Servicemen were killed during the action, plus 3 Island ladies.

• Monday, November 5th 2012 - 19:38 UTC

  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.

• Friday, November 2nd 2012 - 05:57 UTC

  Type-21 Frigate Association present at Remembrance Sunday in UK and Falklands

  

  The Royal Navy Type 21 Association raised funds in support of activities to remember those that have lost their lives in war and peace whilst serving in the Armed Forces. The funds were raised at a successful reunion recently held in Devonport where the eight Type 21 ships were based.

• Friday, October 19th 2012 - 00:48 UTC

  Argentine military governor of the Falklands arrested for human rights violations

  

  The military governor of the Falkland Islands during Argentina’s brief occupation of the archipelago in 1982 was detained for his alleged role in human rights abuses at a notorious torture center in the 1970s, prosecutors said Thursday.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 16:50 UTC

  Falklands’ war restored Vulcan bomber will take final flight next year

  

  Britain's only flying Cold War Vulcan bomber and which participated in Operation Black Buck bombing Stanley airport during the Falkland Islands conflict of 1982, will take its final flight next year before being grounded because of soaring restoration costs, according to reports in the UK media.

• Tuesday, October 16th 2012 - 07:46 UTC

  ARA Libertad conflict forces the resignation of the Argentine navy chief

  

  The ARA Libertad conflict retained in Ghana has a new victim: Argentina’s Navy chief of staff Admiral Carlos Alberto Paz tendered his resignation and was replaced by his deputy Vice-Admiral Daniel Alberto Martin.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 00:35 UTC

  Falkland Islands unravelled

  

  By Alicia Dunkley-Willis, Jamaica Observer - What does a country with 3,000 people and nearly half a million sheep look like? After 18 hours of flying and trekking through four airports, I was determined to find out.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 23:51 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez ruffling feathers with the Falklands to mask domestic failings

  

  Several British newspapers have turned their eyes on Argentina arguing that the challenging situation faced by President Cristina Fernandez both domestically and internationally is making her increasingly take advantage of the Falkland Islands dispute as a smokescreen to mask domestic failings.

• Monday, October 1st 2012 - 22:05 UTC

  Argentine marine who headed invasion of the Falklands on 2 April, dies

  

  The Rear Admiral who headed the landing and invasion of the Argentine forces in the Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982 died over the weekend. Carlos Büsser was under house arrest for his alleged participation in crimes against humanity during the last military dictatorship although he was never convicted.