Tag: Rex Hunt

• 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”.

• Monday, November 12th 2012 - 01:43 UTC

  Sir Rex Hunt, Governor of the Falklands during the Argentine invasion has died

  

  Sir Rex Hunt, the former governor of the Falkland Islands during the Argentine invasion which triggered the South Atlantic conflict of 1982 passed away in England on Remembrance Sunday.

• Monday, October 1st 2012 - 22:05 UTC

  Argentine marine who headed invasion of the Falklands on 2 April, dies

  

  The Rear Admiral who headed the landing and invasion of the Argentine forces in the Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982 died over the weekend. Carlos Büsser was under house arrest for his alleged participation in crimes against humanity during the last military dictatorship although he was never convicted.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 04:25 UTC

  Falklands’ 82 exhibition opens in Stanley and will run until April

  

  “Telling some of the personal stories behind the events we know so well,” was how Museum Curator Leona Roberts described a fascinating and comprehensive exhibition of Falkland Islands war memorabilia and stories currently on display at St Mary’s Parish Hall in Stanley.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2011 - 06:29 UTC

  Falklands’ conflict facsimiles of Argentine “instruments of surrender” go under the hammer

  

  Four rare artifacts from the Falklands War are to go under the hammer next November 17, including surrender documents which would normally be housed in government archives, reports the Daily Mail.