Remembering the Falklands

The last Post sounds as moving tributes and solomn ceremonies take place, tens of thousands of miles apart.

Twenty five years after the Falkland Islands were liberated from Argentine occupation, dignitaries joined veterans and relatives to remember the fallen.

At a thanksgiving service at the Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel in Berkshire attended by the prime minister, the Queen told families and veterans that the sacrifice had not been in vain.

More than a thousand Falkland Islanders attended their own service in the Falklands, at the Christchurch cathedral in Stanley, unveiling a monument bearing the names of the 255 British servicemen killed in the conflict. Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, represented the Queen.

The Islands were liberated after a two month Argentine occupation. The conflict also cost the lives of more than 600 Argentines and three islanders.

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