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By Graham Bound, London - HAROLD Briley, a BBC World Service journalist who reported from Buenos Aires throughout the 1982 Falklands War, has received a special and rare honour from the government of the Islands.
It was a day for looking back. On Wednesday morning, veterans gathered at Tavistock War Memorial to mark the anniversary of the end of the Falklands War, still fresh in the minds of those who served 40 years on.
With the capture of Mount Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge and Sapper Hill the Falkland Islands conflict was effectively over and at 2100 hours on the 14th June 1982 the commander of the Argentine garrison in Stanley, General Mario Menendez, surrendered to Major General Jeremy Moore.
For three days British soldiers overcame mines, artillery and hand-to-hand combat to claim Mount Longdon – 40 years on, this is their story
IT is the most famous image of the Falklands War – six Royal Marines yomping with the Union Jack proudly flying from their radio aerial.Yet apart fr