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● A VC10 accompanied by Naval and RAF Hawks fl ies over
Buckingham Palace at the end of the parade and (left) the Prince of
Wales takes the salute at the Victoria Monument
but as one
The Surface Fleet was commanded the leading company
represented by more than 1,100 of 42 Commando RM on Mount
RN, RM, RFA and maritime units
men, including veterans from 44 Harriet, remembered how the
which took part in the confl ict
of the ships and submarines which Marines camped out in freezing
and were represented at the
took part in the campaign. conditions for 11 days before their
Falklands 25 Parade in London
The second Royal Marines surprise assault on the mountain
included:
Band led in nearly 300 green where Argentinian soldiers held ROYAL NAVY
berets, headed by Major General the upper ground.
HMS Active; HMS Alacrity; HMS
Jim Dutton, who served in the “There was no shelter and with Ambuscade; HMS Andromeda; HMS
Falklands as a Signals Officer with the wind chill factor temperatures
Antelope; HMS Antrim; HMS Ardent;
40 Commando. fell as low as minus 30 degrees,”
HMS Argonaut; HMS Arrow; HMS
Avenger; HMS Brilliant; HMS Bristol; HMS
In the same contingent were he recalled. Broadsword; HMS Cardiff; HMS Cordella;
women from Queen Alexandra’s “But when we had to fight, we
HMS Coventry; HMS Dumbarton Castle;
Royal Naval Nursing Service; the forgot the cold and fear.”
HMS Endurance; HMS Exeter; HMS
Farnella; HMS Fearless; HMS Glamorgan;
Royal Fleet Auxiliary, and the Kathryn Nutbeem, whose HMS Glasgow; HMS Hecla; HMS Herald;
Merchant Navy. father, Maj Roger Nutbeem, died
HMS Hydra; HMS Hermes; HMS Intrepid;
Once the Navy and Army were in the Falklands when she was five
HMS Invincible; HMS Junella; HMS Leeds
Castle; HMS Minerva; HMS Penelope;
assembled the parade ground was years old, sang Somewhere Along HMS Plymouth; HMS Pict; HMS Sheffield;
so full that the Army had to do The Road in his memory.
HMS Yarmouth; HMS Conqueror; HMS
a rapid right-dress to make way Kathryn inherited her father’s
Courageous; HMS Onyx; HMS Spartan;
HMS Splendid; HMS Valiant
for the Royal Air Force and their love of singing and trained at the
band. Royal Academy of Music; she is
ROYAL MARINES
Among the testimonies was a now a professional actress and
3 Commando Brigade; 40 Commando; 42
particularly moving account from singer and performs on behalf of
Commando; 45 Commando; Commando
Logistic Regiment; 3 Commando Brigade Air
Ken Enticknap, who at the time of SSAFA and the Army Benevolent NAS; Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre
the conflict was a marine engineer Fund.
in HMS Ardent. At the end of the formal part of
FLEET AIR ARM
He vividly recounted being the ceremony, a group of young
800 NAS, 801 NAS, 809 NAS, 899 NAS, 815 ● (Right) Prince Michael of
NAS, 845 NAS, 846 NAS, 847 NAS, 848 NAS
trapped when his ship was fatally people from Peter Symonds
(all RNAS Yeovilton); 824 NAS, 825 NAS, 820
Kent lays a wreath at the RFA
hit in Falkland Sound on May 21 College in the Falkland Islands
NAS, 826 NAS (all RNAS Culdrose) 737 NAS,
and Merchant Navy memorial
1982. thanked the veterans for their part
829 NAS (RNAS Portland) in London’s Trinity Square
Overwhelmed by thick smoke, in liberating their homeland. ROYAL FLEET AUXILIARY
and (below) the stirring sight
he thought he was going to die “If it were not for you, we would
of the Royal Marines Band
Stromness; Sir Percival; Sir Tristram; Fort
– until by some miracle a waft of not be here today,” they said. Grange; Brambleleaf; Tidepool; Sir Lancelot;
marching in Horse Guards
fresh air from an opening revived After the ceremony in Horse
Plumleaf; Olmeda; Engadine; Sir Geraint; Parade during the national
Olna; Sir Galahad; Bayleaf; Regent; Sir
him and he managed to fight his Guards, the parade marched to the
commemoration
Bedivere; Appleleaf; Resource; Tidespring
way out. Queen Victoria monument outside
When he was waiting to be Buckingham Palace.
MERCHANT NAVY ● (Below left) The Queen
picked up by the helicopter, he saw Here the Prince of Wales took
Atlantic Causeway; Atlantic Conveyor; British
places a stone on the cairn
his colleague lifted in a bear-hug the salute and the veterans lined
Tamar; MV Anco Charger; MV Alvega; MV created from 255 rocks
British Esk; MV British Trent; MV Nordic
by a winchman – who turned out up outside the palace to watch a Ferry; MV Norland; MV Saxonia; MV
– symbolising the war’s 255
to be Surg Cdr Rick Jolly. fly-past of helicopters and fixed-
Scottish Eagle; MV Stena Seaspread; RFA
British dead – at Pangbourne
“He appeared in front of me like wing aircraft, ending in a splendid
Fort Grange; RFA Resource; RMS Queen College in Berkshire
Elizabeth II; SS Canberra; SS St Edmund;
the Angel Gabriel,” he recalled. flourish with the RAF’s Red SS Uganda
Peter Babbington, who Arrows.
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