On this day the men of the 2nd Battlians settlement at Goose Green during the Falklands campaign.

 On this day the men of the 2nd  Battlians settlement at Goose Green during the Falklands campaign.

This is a phenomenal photograph showing members of patrols platoon 2 Para I would meet the men later in life standing on the extreme left and right and soldier in the same Sqn same troop.

Exceptional soldiers all who took me under their wing and mentored me in Belize

One a 100% perfectionist who became Sqn SSM  and the other a bit more adhoc unorthodox.

The second pic John Geddes the unorthodox one just about to assault the schoolhouse

Respect to all those men who outnumbered, outgunned, against troops with better equipment in well sighted defensive positions fixed bayonets and went forward in the finest traditions of the British Army and the Maroon Machine

There is a misconception that the Argentine soldiers where ineffective bedraggled conscripts ready to surrender

From everything I have heard they where courageous men during all the land battles 

Prepared to fight hand to hand as was often the case in the campaign, a personal war fought by individuals with bayonets fixed 

It’s hard to imagine that in 1982 the campaign was closer in years to WW2 than it is to us now reflecting on that campaign

To all those who died on both sides RIP “Only the dead have seen the end of war”