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He had his bloody webbing on, so it was full of ammunition and god knows what. but he hit the thing, bounced and went under the water. "oh, my god, he's gone." curley's sort of diving in. so, i grabbed a hold of him. automatically, he pulled me down. and, to my relief, mike was standing next to me... i got on the backside of his trousers and his legs and next, he's pulling up in the air. this guy takes an almighty gasp. gasps lucky enough, i still had hold of him and i managed to get him on the deck there. some sea kings were there, flying about, and they were i trying to fan some of the life ...

Since the second world war. the final push for stanley loomed. the next morning, it was a race to the capital. you could see british troops flooding off the features. to our left, wireless ridge, two para, our sister battalion. to our right, mount tumbledown, scots guard. and it was decided that regimental pride dictated we wanted to be the first into stanley, so helmets came off, red berets came on, head down, bum up and... ..into stanley. as soon as the argies saw how many of us there were — which was basically a battalion on the ground by the time the helicopter had dropped everybody off ...

You towards the shoreline. - i think there were some of the last ones off. and they all had bad burns but some were worse than the others, so you had to give the ones with the worst burns immediate treatment. two para were already ashore, and the field ambulance. they were sort of taking wounded off the lifeboats and putting them on the shore and sort of looking after them. my first thought was, "god, mark, i i hope you weren't on there, mate." he was. that was tough. yeah. you knew that our guys were on that ship. - that was a tough one. it took us actually about three days before we knew exa...

Of the last ones off. - and they all had bad burns but some were worse than the others, so you had to give the ones with the worst burns immediate treatment. two para were already ashore, and the field ambulance. they were sort of taking wounded off the lifeboats and putting them on the shore and sort of looking after them. my first thought was, "god, mark, i i hope you weren't on there, mate". he was. that was tough. yeah. you knew that our guys were on that ship. - that was a tough one. it took us actually about three days before we knew exactly what was what — who was missing, who was wou...

So you had to give the ones with the worst burns immediate treatment. two para were already ashore, and the field ambulance. they were sort of taking wounded off the lifeboats and putting them on the shore and sort of looking after them. my first thought was, "god, mark, i i hope you weren't on there, mate". he was. - that was tough. yeah. you knew that our guys were on that ship. - that was a tough one. it took us actually about three days before we knew exactly what was what — who was missing, who was wounded and who we had ashore, so it was quite a... ..a difficult time for us, i would sa...