Tag: Falklands' veterans suicide

• Wednesday, July 10th 2013 - 17:44 UTC

  Falklands: multi-disciplinary plan to help tackle veterans’ trauma

  

  Archaeologists, historians, former service personnel and mental health professionals are meeting in London to discuss a plan to use archaeology to tackle war trauma. The plan is the idea of University of Glasgow academic Dr Tony Pollard and is centred on the Falkland Islands conflict.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2013 - 18:50 UTC

  UK MoD challenges statistics on suicides among Falklands’ veterans

  

  The claim that more Falklands veterans have killed themselves since the war ended than died in action is not borne out by statistics, a study says. Some 255 UK personnel died in action, but a veterans group has said the suicide toll since 1982 exceeds that.