Delighted to announce that @WarDiaryF82 is now co-hosted by @ProfTonyPollard & @warsmatter. To mark the 40th anniversary we will be running the daily war diary with help from our veteran friends. We look forward to your input!

The only footage of the Sir Galahad gun team. The only film of me down south. Galahad had been hit for the first time and we had crossed to Stromness to set up the guns while the bombs on Galahad were dealt with. I am there is yellow life preserver and white anti flash gloves

Eve of my last ever new academic year. Everything I do from now until end of May will be for last time. Tomorrow it's the intro lecture for my Islands at War in the 20th century course. I've always liked this one and sure some of content will get post-retirment outings.

OTD 1815 & morning after the day before at Waterloo. What happened to the thousands of dead men & horses? Who cleaned up & where did all the stuff go? What about the wounded? What fate befell the battlefield & its dead in the years to come? Read all about it in these 3 articles:

TV schedule for ITV the day the Falklands War came to an end. Argentine troops surrendered in Stanley after occupying the islands for 74 days. Live and Let Die was how it was in the brutal battles on the mountains, but Live and Let Live quickly became the mantra.

OTD 1982 Battle of Tumbledown rages through night. Scots Guards fought Argentine troops at bayonet point along crest & flank of this dragon’s back of a mountain. In 2022 we returned with veterans for first archaeological survey. Read free @Mapping1982 book https://t.co/1jsffSBR5S

#OnThisDay 1999 HM The Queen gave permission for Surg.Capt. Rick Jolly to wear insignia of the Argentine Orden de Mayo granted by Argentina for Jolly’s life saving care to Argentine casualties as well as British during the Falklands, he was the only person decorated by both sides

Remembering Staff Sergeant James Prescott CGM, Royal Engineers, died on the 23rd May 1982 aged 37 when an unexploded bomb he was attempting to remotely defuse on HMS Antelope exploded #Falklands @falklands_utd

2 Apr 82 The main force landing at Yorke Bay in the Falklands signalled the invasion of the Falklands by Argentina. They would mine the same bay to prevent a future British amphibious landing.

Delighted to recommend new book by an old friend. Joyce provided mufflers and other authentic items for our troops in the Pollock Park trenches during the Great War centenary. Includes background to this home front contribution & patterns. I can see myself in some of this stuff!

Thanks for reminding me of this @militaryhistori. A moment I will always cherish. It was such a privilege to be there with Scots Guards veterans of 1982, Jim and John.

A moving obituary to photographer Paul Haley in @thetimes last week. Arriving at San Carlos with 5 Infantry Brigade, Paul captured some of the most iconic photographs of the Falklands War at Goose Green and with the Scots Guard on Mount Tumbledown. 🇫🇰🇬🇧 https://t.co/v4639DnqOF

Saddened to report another @2PARA_HQ Falklands vet died today - Douggie McCready (MMGs) - on the right. Another iconic photo taken on 15 or 16 June 82 when Port Stanley needed patrolling due to the Argentinian antics. @TheParachuteReg @FalklandsinUK

Sadly, another @2PARA_HQ Falklands vet lost his battle with cancer today - Fred Venables (Sigs Pl) third from right in this famous photo leaving Aldershot. @TheParachuteReg

Great to be there to see @warsmatter graduate with his PhD. It’s been an honour to join him on his journey as a Falklands veteran doing great work researching the use of archives by veterans. @UofGWarstudies @andrewhoskins

Mentions of 'An Ungentlemanly Act' as movie in my recent post. It wasn't, but an important movie. Here's @HistoryHack podcast on it . Was a privilege to take part in this conversation with director @Stuart_Urban & cast members (I was a bit star struck).

Name that movie. Hint: it’s not Tumbledown.

Just heard the sad news that Paul Haley has died. His iconic photo of the Scots Guards on top of Tumbledown will be an enduring image of the Falklands War.

At the going down of the sun. 2 Para memorial on Darwin Hill commemorating those who fell in the Battle of Goose Green in 1982. Along with the legions of the lost, remembering the fallen and veterans of the Falklands War on both sides today. @warsmatter

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐤 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝. The world has lost a kind and compassionate man, rest in peace Padre Derek Heaver, a man of peace in time of war. #Falklands War #MountLongdon @3PARA #ParachuteRegiment @PRA_Airborne @SAMA82office

Tonight’s walk in Durness reminded me of the Falklands. IYKYK.