Tag: Falklands War

• Wednesday, January 11th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

  Falkland Islands celebrated Margaret Thatcher's Day, remembering her visit 10 January 1983

  

  January 10 is a very special anniversary in the Falklands Islands because Margaret Thatcher's Day is celebrated. On this day in 1983 then Prime Minister Thatcher visited the Islands and was awarded the honorary freedom of the Falklands.

• Monday, January 2nd 2023 - 23:59 UTC

  US favors supplying Argentina with vintage F16s to counter Chinese influence and despite UK's objection

  

  A leading US Navy think tank feels it is imperative for the US to pay close attention to the South Atlantic given China's growing trade, financial, investment influence in countries such as Argentina, and suggests a joint security cooperation investment with the UK, but especially overcoming an “outdated United Kingdom post-Falklands War security policy”

• Saturday, December 24th 2022 - 10:32 UTC

  Falklands 40th anniversary: RAF's Nimrod patrolling the South Atlantic in support of the Task Force

  

  The Royal Air Force played a significant role in helping to secure Britain's recapture of the Falkland Islands in 1982 with its aircraft supporting UK forces during many operations. On the fortieth anniversary of the conflict, Forces.net reveals some of the details.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2022 - 10:13 UTC

  Next of kin of the only Argentine combatant buried in South Georgia visit his grave

  

  Forty years after the end of the South Atlantic conflict, the children of Argentine Navy NCO Felix Oscar Artuso were able to visit the grave of their father, the only Falklands combatant buried in South Georgia island.

• Thursday, December 1st 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  Digitalized documents on Argentina's Falklands claim made available to the public

  

  Argentina announced the digitalization of many relevant documents referring to the country's claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands and the first delivery has been made available on the web page “Malvinas nos Une” (Malvinas Unites Us).

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 10:12 UTC

  Charles leads Remembrance as King; Falklands present at the Cenotaph with a floral wreath

  

  King Charles III led the Remembrance Sunday service at London's Cenotaph for the first time as monarch to honor Britain's war dead and in a special year, marking the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War.

• Saturday, November 12th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Commemorative flight for 130 Falklands Veterans and next of kin, first time in the Islands in forty years

  

  Many Veterans and relatives who lost loved ones in the Falklands war are back in the Islands, for the first time in four decades, in a commemorative flight funded by the UK Ministry of Defense. The 130 travelers will mark the conflict's fortieth anniversary Sunday 13 November at Remembrance Day in the City of Stanley.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Falklands and BOTs delegates invited to the Constituency Garden of Remembrance

  

  The Speaker of the House Sir Lindsay Hoyle installed on Monday the opening of the Constituency Garden of Remembrance at the New Palace Yard in Parliament grounds and invited representatives from the Overseas Territories to participate.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Falklands' war landing craft, wins 2022 Flagship Award of the Year

  

  Foxtrot 8 is one of the four vessels that won the 2022 Flagships of the Year Awards, for its public engagement program and media campaign in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflict, according to Heritage Machines and National Historic Ships UK.

• Saturday, November 5th 2022 - 10:56 UTC

  Remembrance Sunday live from the Falkland Islands

  

  A Remembrance service will be broadcast live from the Falkland Islands on 13 November. Veterans of the 1982 conflict have returned to the Islands, many for the first time, to be part of the moving commemorations.