Forward into Hell

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Part of this training saw the 7th Regiment undertake major all-arms collective training in central Argentina alongside the 3rd and 6th Infantry Regiments of the 10th Brigade. one of those present remembers - this group of non-commissioned officers disarmed and stripped their officers and disappeared into the jungle. There, little appetite remains for uncovering the dirty truths of a war which Argentina both started and lost, especially as the present mood in that country is for rapprochement with Britain. Despite the many yards of column-inches dedicated to the question of whether or not British soldiers committed war crimes, Bramley's book has so far remained their only primary (and non-Argentine) source.

Britons Divided by Probe Into Alleged Falklands Atrocities

At Goose Green, three weeks earlier, the Commanding Officer of 2 Para, Lieut Col Herbert 'H' Jones, had been shot dead in crossfire, along with 14 of his men. Malcolm Rifkind is known to take a particularly strong line, especially in the context of Northern Ireland, on the need for soldiers not to be seen as above the law. They then attacked the position, clearing it of the Argentine garrison with rifle, grenade and bayonet in close quarters combat.This report, Bramley was told by another officer who had seen Mason's letter to Lieut-Col Parker, had gone via the Ministry of Defence to the Cabinet Office. In 1985, in a bizarre incident which has never been reported, a group of paras is said to have 'mutinied' in Belize. Any such award, I was told, was vetoed when an officer discovered that the dead soldier's ammunition pouch was filled with ears and other Argentine body-parts. In Shepton Mallet High Security Prison, dishonourably discharged from the army, revisited by disturbing images of the battle, Bramley wrote Excursion to Hell.

Former officer backs Falklands atrocity claim: Parachute

In 2009, Argentine authorities in Comodoro Rivadavia ratified a decision made by authorities in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego (which, according to Argentina, have authority over the islands), announcing their intention to charge 70 officers and NCOs with inhumane treatment of conscript soldiers during the war. At the centre of the mountain were Marine conscripts Jorge Maciel and Claudio Scaglione in a bunker with a heavy machine gun, and Marine conscripts Luis Fernández and Sergio Giuseppetti with night-scope equipped rifles. Beyond the clear limits of the criminal law, who, and by what criteria, is to judge the degree to which that violence was exercised?In common with many of his former colleagues, Bramley considers that the screaming aggression induced by close-quarter battle is incompatible with 'reasonable' behaviour. I told Parker everyone in the regiment had known about it (the clifftop killing) for 10 years,' Bramley says. At the age of 16, convicted of causing actual bodily harm after fighting with soldiers, Bramley was sentenced to a period of detention. a b "Not long after, they heard that Lance-Corporal Hare of 2 Troop had been seriously wounded while on patrol with 3 Para.