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Falklands (Operation Corporate)
On 2nd April 1982 Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a British Territory in the South Atlantic, followed the next day by...
Corporal Mick Melia, 59 Independent Commando Squadron RE, attached to HQ A Company, 2 PARA, was killed by small arms fire as A Company came under fire from Darwin Hill just after dawn broke on 28 May 1982.
See account of Goose Green co-edited by Colonel David Benest
Service History
- Date not known 59 Independent Commando Squadron RE (Corporal)
- Date not known The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) (Corporal)