Tag: Falklands Memorial

• Friday, June 23rd 2023 - 05:49 UTC

  Falklands Memorial Map for the 258 families of fallen British combatants and Pangbourne Church

  

  “There's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.” Never were the words of Rupert Brooke more apt – though we must add Scotland, Wales, and Ireland to his original verse – than in the Falklands, where Islanders have named beaches, bays, harbors, islets, and inlets after the 258 souls killed in the 1982 conflict.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2012 - 08:13 UTC

  Sir Rex Hunt helped change British thinking towards the Falklands

  

  Falklands Governor Nigel Haywood underlined the influence of Sir Rex Hunt on the attitude of the British government and British thinking towards the Falklands, helping to understand that “the lives of the Islanders really had to come first”.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 21:47 UTC

  Cameron pays tribute to Falklands’ conflict dead and reaffirms Islanders right to self determination

  

  UK Prime Minister David Cameron has paid his own personal tribute to the 255 soldiers, sailors and airmen who gave their lives to liberate the Falkland Islands. Making his first visit to the national Armed Forces Memorial as Prime Minister, Cameron also reaffirmed his commitment to defend the Falkland Islanders' right to self-determination.