Tag: Welsh Guard

• Saturday, May 18th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Falklands War: partly released documents on Welsh Guard losses trigger more controversy

  

  BBC is reporting that declassified documents, --to be kept secret until 2065--, have cleared an army regiment of any blame in the biggest loss of British life during the Falklands War. Forty-eight crew were killed when the Sir Galahad, an unarmed and undefended supply ship carrying British troops to the Falklands, was hit by the Argentine air force bombs on 8 June 1982, six days before the end of the conflict.—