REME Workshops in Stanley after the Falklands War
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- Опубліковано 8 січ 2023
- This clip was included in the REME Museum's exhibition - Remembering the Falklands: 40 Years On.
REME Officers and Soldiers talking about the Workshops on the islands in the early years after the conflict.
© Crown Copyright, reproduced under Open Government License, edited.
See more like this in the digital exhibition held on a multimedia interactive table in the REME Museum's gallery in Lyneham, Wiltshire.
I was in 37 Engr Regt workshop REME (May-Sept 84). We were based to one side of the runway at RAF Stanley. The A&G section comprised of my welding shop (an ISO container), always flooded and the machy wagon. Our only form of heating were the 4 little wall heaters than were pretty hopeless. This video reminds me mostly of the constant wind and the biting cold. 12 hour working days, 7am to 7pm, 6 days a week.
This film or video was made in 1983 as the airfield seems to have a hard surface instead of the metal interlocking grids that first allowed the air-bridge and the deployment of the Phanthoms. 2 Field Workshop REME secured the old bombed out RM barracks at Moody Brook following deployment and the big clean-up of the town and other areas. We came ashore from the MV Norland with the assistance of LCL's and I was lucky enough to secure a peat-shed at No 32 Davis Street with a lady, Mrs Doris McGill, who's kindness and company I shall never forget. I am still in contact with her family after 42 years! The Packard armoured vehicles and various other Argintine equipment like the Mercedes G-Wagons were recovered and brought in from all over the Island - many of it being under-slung from RAF Chinooks or Seaking helicopters. I worked out from that large building which was part of the old whaling station. The stench and aftermath of the conflict remains a distant memory with the clearing up of the rotting body parts from the building which had been used as a field hospital in the last stages of the battle for Port Stanley. Thank you to the Museum for making this film available.
Great video- you can hear the radar sweeps on the tape!
there are so many videos even with modern digital devices that have it too, an interesting phenomenon, those static & naval radars just pump out an outrageous amount of RF energy.
I wondered what was making the interference. Thanks. 👍
I grew up a stones throw from RAF Neatishead and it's big radar. You could always tell when they'd powered it up as the tv would fade in and out rhythmically!
Just imagine what that does to the human body.
@@RedTail1-1 up close? severe microwave damage, basically a turbo-3rd degree burn.
high risk of corneal burns too, nerve sheath damage is also very common with microwave exposures.
At a distance practically nothing the farther out you go.
cancer risk is not really there, more likely the PCBs in the radars liquid coolant loop will give you that.
I love this video... I went there in November 86 as a REME mechanic, oddly enough... Memories are made of this.... HUZZAH!!!
Thank you for uploading this video.
I arrived at PSC just after it all finished. Lived in the sheep shearing pens for a couple of months, keeping the Wokkas flying
My first fighting patrol with the whole force of J Company 42 Commando Royal Marines was looking for the enemy who shot down that very same Gazelle.
The Argies that had shot down the Helo and Lieutenant Nunn and his co pilot, swam ashore only to be shot and killed by those responsible for downing the aircraft, sadly we never found those responsible for this cowardly act.
The Beaver float plane hanger was used as a Med station and certainly didn’t look like it does in the video, after the surrender we moved from Mount Harriet into Stanley and used the hanger to sleep in. On entering the building we were slipping and sliding on something and once we had got some torches out found out why, the floor was covered in blood and body parts a horrendous sight for anyone no matter which side you were on.
We had to put our roll mats end to end side by side covering the floor, one of the many sights that has always stayed with me for 42 years
ah, was this the hangar where the Royal Marines found a boot complete with a foot inside it? My geography teacher at school didn't talk much about the conflict (this was about 1986), but that was one thing he did mention and what a complete mess the Argentinian medical setup was.
You have got a few things confused here. Lt. Nunn was a Scout pilot killed on 29 May when he was shot down by a Pucara. The Gazelle, XX 411 shown here, was shot down on 21 May by troops under the command of Primer Teniente Carlos Esteban of EC "Guemes" as they withdrew from Fanning Head. The pilot, Sgt.Andy Evans, was hit but managed to force land the helicopter in the water. The gunner Sgt. Edward R Candlish, assisted Evans out of the sinking helicopter but Evans died shortly after of his wounds after he was carried to a bunkhouse at Port San Carlos by several islanders. Candlish reported they were being shot at while in the water. Esteban claims he ordered his men to cease fire, but they either didn't hear or refused to do so.
These same Argentine troops shortly afterwards shot down another Gazelle, killing pilot Lt. Ken Francis and LCPL Brett Griffin, both Royal Marines.
That was really interesting.. could have watched hours of that.
Did my time at Moody Brook January to August 1984….brilliant posting
yes 1 kings own royal border were there in 83
I was on Mt. Kent and watch Moody Brook get zonked by 29 Cdo RA. I had also lived in those huts for a year on NP8901 so I had mixed feelings about it but also watching the Argentinians do back flips did swing me in favour of said zonking!
You’re welcome
Thanks for your work there
I thought "40 years? I thought this happened in the 80s?" Then i remembered I'm about to be 40 years old...
I was RAOC Stores Section attached to 2 Fd Wksps in 84/85. The Workshop had the Samson by then, did the Panhard ever get converted?
Interesting. I wonder what happened to the P&W twin packs from the Bell helicopters and those Pucara engines. Did they ever convert the armoured car to a workshop vehicle and if so what happened to it? The radar is getting into the film. I remember working on the self same Herc that is in the background of the opening clip.
Some of the fun things made their way back to the UK. Some of those have been used operationally.
Not 100% on this but that Gazelle that was fished out of the water may be the one now restored and on display at the South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum. Anyone know for definite?
Otimo! Falklands forever.
I simply Refuse to tolerate the constant, unrelenting, ferocious, bitter, tiring, gusty winds.
Not needing a rubbish bin is slight consultation . . . ☆
So How Long Did They Have to Wait so They Could Record During Wind ?¿
This is so interesting, i’ll be taking a masters in electrical and electronics engineering and a masters in mechanical engineering soon.
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We defend an island 8000 miles away while leaving our own to its fate
The irony
Being done on purpose to demoralise us….. thank Tony Blair and the WEF
Stop whingeing. We defend Brits wherever they are, well some of us do.
What are you actually talking about?
@@steviechat unless they're in Britain
30 mph wind 24/7. What a bleak miserable wasteland to fight over.
Trophies for the victorious.
hahaha It's just rubbish and rust
*Right. Now lets see something DECENT and MILITARY!*
Malvinas to the rescue
Aegaian Islands are Turkish!