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Date Posted: 13:55:52 01/31/07 Wed
Author: Ken Griffiths - Hood Division 1977-1979
Subject: Falklands25

Hello again.

It's Twenty five years since the Falklands War so I Thought I'd share with you a few pictures from my time down there.

Later this year I'm off to London to take part in a veterans' parade culminating in a march past with the Queen or Prince Phillip in attendance........should be a cracking experience.

Wish me luck.

Yours aye.

Ken Griffiths.
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My first RN ship HMS Cardiff(Sheffield Class Destroyer) after a night shelling Argentine positions.
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Typical Falklands weather!
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1982 HMS Cardiff(left)& HMS Sheffield pass each other and indulge in a bit of spud/egg throwing.....soon after this picture was taken we lost the Sheffield.
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I was on a modern destroyer but at times it came down to this for self defence.
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Our Seadart Missiles cause blast damage.
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It was bloody cold, we were scared and you couldn't get a haircut!
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I get ashore to deliver rum in Ajax Bay(field hospital)and took this picture of British make shift graves.
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This now famous picture was taken by Leading Seaman Middleton (HMS Cardiff's photographer)when Cardiff took the surrender of 700 Argentine troops at Port Howard.
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HMS Cardiff, Battle Ensign at the gaff on the day we take the surrender of the West Falklands.

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