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Victorian Commando Association members were saddened to learn of the death in late December of Rita Drakopoulos, aged 95. Rita was the widow of the 2 Commando Company CSM, Warrant Officer George “Taffy” Drakopoulos, who drowned in the tragic Rip incident in 1960.
The soldier, who was in a critical condition in hospital following the shooting, died of his injuries on Sunday night, the Dutch Ministry of Defense said in a statement today.
The Dutch Defense Ministry said on Monday that a Dutch special forces member who was one of three commandos shot outside a hotel in Indianapolis over the weekend has passed away from his injuries.
Forty years ago, British troops were advancing towards Port Stanley in the Falklands – most of them on foot. Standing in the way of the advance was Top Malo House, a property suspected of containing Argentine special forces that sat in a compromising high ground position.
It’s 40 years since the Falklands War and former marine Andy Rigsby, of Ryde on the Isle of Wight, remembers it well.