NAM.1991-12-110-1

First of three sound cassettes: oral history interview with Maj Gareth Pugh, recalling his experiences as a Royal Artillery Forward Observation Officer wounded in action during the Falklands campaign of 1982. Interview covers joining the army; brother (in the RAF) being deployed to the Falklands; joining the task force; training on Salisbury Plain; travelling on the QE2; struggling to locate correct equipment; using the clansman; travelling from South Georgia to San Carlos; relieving 2 Para at Goose Green; recovery of (Argentinean) casualties after Goose Green; significance of Goose Green; moving round to Bluff Cove; being under shell fire. Associated with South Atlantic (Falklands War) (1982). Interview conducted on 31 October 1991. (Transcript Available)

Goose Green, Battle of, 1982 (South Atlantic (Falklands War) 1982)