Tag: Falkland War

• Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 18:01 UTC

  Falkland Islanders Honour Veteran BBC Journalist

  

  By Graham Bound, London - HAROLD Briley, a BBC World Service journalist who reported from Buenos Aires throughout the 1982 Falklands War, has received a special and rare honour from the government of the Islands.

• Thursday, December 8th 2022 - 12:20 UTC

  Falklands Plaque unveiled at Portland to honor dockworkers involved in readying the Task Force

  

  A Falklands Memorial Plaque was unveiled at Portland Port by South Dorset MP Richard Drax, commemorating the work carried out by dockyard employees over a few dramatic weeks in the spring of 1982.

• Thursday, December 8th 2022 - 11:53 UTC

  Francis kisses and blesses an Argentine flag and received soil from the Falklands cemetery

  

  Pope Francis on Wednesday received the head of the Buenos Aires Malvinas Museum, Edgardo Esteban, who visited him at his official residence in the Vatican, and as a gift gave him some soil from the Falklands Argentine military cemetery at Darwin.

• Saturday, August 27th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Behind the lines in 1982: A story of journalistic bravery

  

  By Graham Bound (Stanley, FI) – Days were short during the occupation of 1982, and everything in Stanley seemed hostile and frightening. Our situation was hardly any safer when the watery winter sun went down and the Argentine-imposed curfew forced us indoors. But within whichever substantial building one chose to shelter, with windows blacked out and peat stoves glowing, there was comfort and at least the perception of safety.

• Friday, August 26th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  1982: UK forces downed Argentine Pucara with a Stinger missile during Falklands San Carlos' landing

  

  In 1982, Britain's Special Air Service troops were the first to fire a Stinger missile in combat, during the Falkland Islands conflict. They had been drafted in to distract Argentine forces from the San Carlos landings, carried out by British soldiers in response to Argentina's invasion of the Islands in April 1982.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 18:34 UTC

  End of Falklands War: Euphoric home welcome for SS Canberra and returning troops in Southampton

  

  On Monday 11 July 1982, forty years ago, the SS Canberra – an ocean liner requisitioned by the British Ministry of Defense to transport personnel - returned from the Falklands conflict to Southampton, where she was escorted by a fleet of small vessels and some 2,500 members of the Armed Forces were greeted by cheering crowds.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Mounts surrounding Stanley taken by British forces, end of Falklands war

  

  The Argentine occupation of the Falkland Islands is coming to an end and Liberation is in the air. Royal Marines, Paras, Scot Guards, and Gurkhas with naval bombardment support were attacking and capturing the Mounts surrounding Stanley, which would inevitably lead to the collapse and surrender of Argentine forces on 14 June.

• Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Falklands War: Armed Forces charity, SSAFA, concerned with UK public little knowledge about the conflict

  

  This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict and SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity is calling on the British public to remember those who served during the Falklands Conflict, particularly those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  With a 'quieter' Westminster, Johnson admits he might visit the Falklands

  

  Prime minister Boris Johnson said that “now things are a bit quieter in Westminster”, he might be able to visit the Falkland Islands, pointing out he was probably the only person at the Speaker's House ceremony who has never visited the Islands.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Falkland Islanders “Look Forward at Forty” and will continue to develop the community and economy of the Islands

  

  As the Queen's Platinum Jubilee popular celebrations come to an end, Falkland Islanders have turned back to the 40th-anniversary commemorations of the war and the coming Liberation Day. The Chair of the 40th Anniversary Committee, Mrs. Phyl Rendell MBE made a brief statement on coming events and the future.