Tag: Falklands War

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  That’s a fine mess you got out of, Stanley

  

  By Graham Bound for MercoPress – Images of Stanley captured in 1982 compared with photos taken from the same vantage points 40 years on, show a town – now a city – transformed.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 23:45 UTC

  Timeline: 14th June 1982 – Democracy restored to the Falkland Islands

  

  On 02nd April 1982 Argentine Forces invaded the Falkland Islands. Patrick Watts, who was Head of Falklands Radio, broadcast a marathon 11 hours non-stop description of the events as they unfolded. He maintained a British presence in the Radio Station for most of the 74 days of Argentine occupation. In this article, he provides a personal account of his recollections of the day that British Forces liberated the Falklands.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  Impressive service at the Pangbourne Falklands' Memorial Chapel

  

  More than a thousand people gathered on Sunday at Pangbourne College Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel to commemorate forty years since the end of the Falklands War. The Memorial Chapel holds a remembrance service each year for the 255 British personnel, 649 Argentines and three civilian Islanders killed during the 74 days bitter fighting in the South Atlantic in 1982.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 07:21 UTC

  Memorial service for 14 sailors from HMS Glamorgan killed in Falklands

  

  The Falkland Islands marked the forty years since the attack on HMS Glamorgan which killed fourteen crew members. The Memorial service was held at the Glamorgan memorial, Surf Bay, and streamlined live on Forces News despite awful weather conditions.

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:37 UTC

  Locking in Stanley by land, sea and air, was stalemate for Argentine occupation and Falklands Liberation

  

  British Armed Forces fought their way towards the capital of the Falkland Islands, Stanley, in a series of battles on the evening of 11 June 1982. The objective were the mounts Two Sisters and Harriet, securing the high ground next to Stanley facilitating the definitive surrender of the Argentine occupying force and Liberation of the Falklands

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:31 UTC

  The loss of three civilians lives in west Stanley during Royal Navy shelling

  

  In the early hours of June 12th, at 7 Ross Road, to the west of Stanley, three Falkland Islanders, civilians, tragically lost their lives. This was due, not to ‘direct’ Argentine action, but to a computer ‘glitch’ on a Royal Navy frigate that had been shelling Argentine positions.

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:26 UTC

  Falklands War: Royal Marines in UK honor commando units that yomped 56 miles across the Islands

  

  Royal Marines from all over the United Kingdom have taken part in marching challenges, repeating the 56 miles (90km) across three days, which 42 Commando yomped back in June 1982 during the last week of the Falkland Islands war

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Fitzroy air attack, Britain's major loss in a single incident in the Falklands War

  

  Memorial services were held in the Falkland Islands and in Southampton for those who lost their lives when two Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships were bombed during the Falklands conflict.

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  The unsung heroes of, “Glimpses of the Falklands War”

  

  Glimpses of the Falklands War, from the British Modern Military History Society, recounts some of the personal experiences and stories of over 100 service men and women, Falkland Islanders, and others who were involved in the Falklands War.

• Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Liberation Day program for next Tuesday 14 June

  

  To mark the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Falkland Islands from Argentine occupation in 1982, the following program has been arranged for Tuesday 14 June 2022.