Britain’s daring Mount Harriet raid as told by Falklands veteran

[@markriley1677]

Sir, as our CO you forgot to mention the newly formed J company 42 Commando RM led by Major Mike Norman and the lads from NP8901. We were tasked as the diversionary force to kick it all off that night, after running through a minefield on the way from Mount Challenger. We actually thought in the din of battle we were taking the positions by ourselves, even though K and L Companies were flanking left and right, the amount of fire coming at and down on us certainly felt like it. Never thought i would be firing and manoeuvring on the move stood up as one of the GPMG gun teams up the slopes, thinking back it was all pretty bizarre as we were mostly laughing like school girls all the way as the enemy tracer and their rounds whizzed past our heads. Corporal Laurence/Lofty Watts was a great NCO as he took me and the other lads in my recruit troop through training the previous year.

[@trigger1471]

Got to say Forces News you have put some cracking stuff out in the last week or so on The Falklands.great to watch,but yet,they are so Humble when telling the story.

[@Augh98-nt2zn]

Really nice to hear this humble man speak.

[@AnonAnonAnon]

Stuff of legends. I served alongside men who fought in the conflict. All said it was cold, messy and a hard won battle. Rest in peace all those who never returned.

[@Sidney1WG]

Same here mate. It was this war that inspired me to join up.

[@Jeffybonbon]

The thing i admire so much about the Marines is they are so professional and they dont make a shout and dance about there achievements I served with the British Army and was proud to do so But my admiration for the Royals is strong Maybe I should have been a Marine but truthfully I am not sure I would have passed the test to be a Marine

[@RichRobinson]

Awesome. Respect to all who were there.

[@Indecisive7337]

To Another Hero, thank you.

[@chrissheppard5068]

I was on the Fighting Patrol 2 or 3 days prior to our unit attack. It was a suicide mission dressed up as a fighting patrol/probing patrol. We were taken into the known forward positions of the Battalion by the troop cdr who was told do not come back unless you have a contact. All hell broke loose and we had a 2 and a half hour fire fight at extremely close quarters, the whole unit including adjacent ones were banging away (what we wanted.) They immediately called down a DF on what would have been to them a good start line for an enemy Btn attack. It looked like the Napalm strike in apocalypse now. Fortunately not where we were. We had an officer from 29 Cdo RA who was brilliant and called down a massive strike on them through out our exchange as they did to us but we were so close to them. They did eventually walk mortar fire to us so that was time to bug out. As we legged it all the lads are shouting and laughing run away run away.......Bearing in mind it was a 10 klick yomp there and a 10 klick yomp back. I got in my plastic sleeping bag outer freezing hungry and exhausted (how we trained) and slept like the dead. It was the first real sleep I had up to then and I woke up so refreshed. I found out in my time in K coy that being in 1 section 1 troop was not a good idea as the hierarchy were lousy at counting past 1. Yeh I would do it again. But now for me it is carpet slippers and a warm bed.

[@jameswhyte2353]

Just watching this and then reading all this dialogue is amazing ....biggest respect to you and your comrades for your service.

[@stephenrobinson1007]

Legend Shep!

[@RichRobinson]

Also, fair play to Forces News for these videos.

[@chrisholland7367]

I live in Plymouth and recall watching the westcountry news as a young teenager. The reporters were at Bickleigh Barracks home of 42 commando R.M. Nick Vaux gave the order "Royal Marines to the Falklands quick march " 👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@peterwhitaker4038]

i have never been in any armed forces, but as a civvy can i say what a great guy this is. if i had been in the army it would be a pleasure to serve with leaders like this.

[@lead_farmer69]

Production team, your lighting looks 👌🏻✨️🔥

[@mickyday2008]

Fantastic recollection.

[@Mark_Bickerton]

08:57 I wonder whats the story behind him losing the tips of his fingers of his left hand!

[@yorkiemalone8727]

an accident as a civvie

[@j.t.jaeger1595]

Huge respect to these heroes.

[@howarddeane542]

Dear Sir, thanks very much for your kindness in seeing your own video. I have been a Conservative supporter almost since my birth in 1952. I am privileged to have seen you. Yours Howard Deane-Eric Deane's younger son. Eric and his family have been close friends of the Aston family of whom Roy Aston was a Warrant Officer in the Royal Marines and served in Borneo-Highly confidential

[@bepolite6961]

I remember seeing these Commando lads in the NAAFI in AKROTIRI, CYPRUS in 1980. Seems hard to believe that only two years later they would be engaged in real battles thousands of miles from home. To this day I keep wondering how many of those lads made it home, I hope it was every one of them. All the lads who went down there did a fantastic job.

[@georgegeorgakopoulos5956]

In Forces News we trust

[@EddieT3649]

God bless all who served and are serving total respect to all our guys and girls who serve our country I salute you have a blessed and happy new year 🙏👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇮🇬🇧

[@davidburgess189]

+ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@doug6500]

@@davidburgess189 We're just taken for granted.

[@bc312070]

@@doug6500 Not in this household your not. Respect!

[@raymondhaskin9449]

Stop using 5 different flags and calling it the “union of nations” Back in 1982 it was just one nation, called Britain 🇬🇧. And nobody cared if you were from Glasgow, Belfast or Manchester.

[@EddieT3649]

@@raymondhaskin9449 some do care

[@sandpiper2012]

Respect to you sir..

[@paulmcdonough1093]

he named a position on thre map zoya and sara .nick after his daughters before the attack on harriet

[@paulmcdonough1093]

Your right i got a name wrong i .read it in a book. my uncle was in 2 para at goose green cpl dave abols

[@jonmeek3879]

Amazing video , Thanks

[@adam999walker]

20 years on. Never forget!

[@waynesimpson2074]

40

[@heatpump8566]

Outstanding work gents

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

"Heat Pump"??? Grow up, you cowardly infant.

[@heatpump8566]

@@MichaelKingsfordGray wind your neck in keyboard warrior

[@davidpalin1790]

Heroes

[@rockebynametowndowell]

So brave

[@JJ_Khailha]

❤

[@MarkKerrigan-h6b]

Brave men

[@robertthomas3777]

Salute. Lest we forget. 🦘🇦🇺👍

[@benfrewin9926]

Nick Vaux. Massive fan of a "Horse's Neck". Those who know, know..

[@keithgoodrick-meech3921]

I worked with 42 commando in Armagh in '83, the finest men I've ever seen.

[@keithgoodrick-meech3921]

@@AlbionDreamer I bow to your superior knowledge, whatever RM unit it was in Bessbrook mill in '83 they were the best troops I'd ever seen. Total professional. And with integrity to boot.

[@DonWan47]

Still wearing his Corps tie.

[@angloaust1575]

Now we've taken it What to do with it! Much like bunker hill 1775!

[@kw8757]

Let the British people who live there live their lives in a democratic peaceful land, that's what.

[@angloaust1575]

The islands were retaken rather swiftly than the channel islands In 1940 which were abandoned Until 1945 in spite of british people living there!

[@zoiders]

@@angloaust1575 You clearly don't know how to read a map do you?

[@zoiders]

Nothing at all like Bunker Hill. You probably think Washington had an American accent as well.

[@kw8757]

@@angloaust1575 Totally different situation and enemy.

[@dasbangles6186]

My heroes are the Argentinian soldiers from the 4th (Jungle) Regiment that took on 42 & 45 Commandos and pinned them down for several hours, forcing them to abandon their plans to take Mounts Tumbledown and William that night. They had repelled several British attacks in the week-and-a-half prior to the final battles and had even captured much gear from the Royal Marines. The Argentinian officers, NCOs & conscripts from RI 4 had lived up to their motto ¡Morir por la Patria es Vivir! (To Die for the Fatherland is to Live)

[@shaunmcmillan6791]

No they didn’t….

[@yugopopmusicvideos8531]

@@shaunmcmillan6791 They held their ground longer, shed more blood, and did more damage than NP 8901.

[@nickmiller21]

@@yugopopmusicvideos8531 Firstly there were more of them and secondly they were holding a Mountain and not a wooden building, reverse the positions and RM would have held it until they died of old age.

[@shaunmcmillan6791]

@@yugopopmusicvideos8531 wrong on so many levels

[@Horriblebastad]

Fluck off you lost get over it. Reptile

[@richarddepledge960]

Brilliant memoire. You can always rely on Para Reg to rescue you. Team effort.

[@DavidWoods-of2ct]

Sir, you never mentioned me I took some shrapnel to my forehead ( groovehead I was called then) after being raked by machine gun fire whilst digging out a minefield up the, hill so to speak going on to release either 42 commando or SAS from an argue holding them with a gun

[@mikewingert-savagelyerudite]

Argentinians? Correctly it’s Argentines. Why do people make such a stupid error? Forces News should know better.

[@H4CK61]

I salute the unsung hero's of the falklands war. You will be remembered.

[@kiereluurs1243]

Please dump the totally inappropriate word 'sailing'. You should be able to think of something better, like in mature languages.

[@paulthesurfer7470]

Sad, sad, sad… How about you tell us how you won WW2, next time. Hilarious nostalgia from the pathetic poms against the hapless and hopeless Argies.

[@JammyDodger45]

But not as sad as liking your own post Skippy.

[@snowflakemelter1172]

A classic KZbin comments sad case.

[@somebawldy3789]

Is that another hack? Or have you just discovered bi carb

[@johnnunn8688]

I feel really sorry for you, having no brain to speak of. Don’t forget to breathe.

[@James-gf9jl]

Your time would be better spent cleaning the pot noodle stains off your pyjamas.

[@davidrobinson6353]

💩sorry about the mishap chaps.💩

[@peterstubbs5934]

I take it its cabbagehead week on Forces News. The three hardest battles down south, not in any particular order here but the stats will tell all. Goose Green/Tumbledown/Mt Longdon.

[@asonofharoldgodwin]

And i wonder what the casualties would have been if the Para had attacked Mount Harriet ? There's the enemy at the top of that hill boys, Charge !!! 🤣

[@cgh6114]

not sure what that comment has to do with anything.

[@zoiders]

Its not a competition. I will also remind you that it was the RM who went ashore in advance of the task force and cleared the Argentine SF out of the mountains overlooking San Carlos. Without those days of patrol battles in the snow no one would have made it ashore.

[@adam999walker]

There weren’t any easy battles in falklands. Except for maybe wireless ridge 😮. Just joshing mate. full respect to all paras and marines.

[@adam999walker]

And guardsmen!!!