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We're making a 30 minute film about the pilgrimage to Falklands in November. Are there any survivors from BBC South region who are going??
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Many thanks
freddie Rostand
Just happened to surf by and found this exciting website. Already bookmarked it and will be back!
Fond memories of a great ship, great skipper and great shipmates.
What an excellent site. I served on Cov before the Falklands but was down there on glasgow and still remember each year the shipmates we lost
Yours aye
Pete Burnett
A fine tribute to a very brave bunch of men and a very brave 42. Thank you.
wes cowan here leaving a message on behalf of my brother paddy cowan ex stoker pre falklands.anyone who remembers him can pass on any messages and i will be glad to pass them on to him he said he was an all round good egg but i would like to hear from anybody that knows different
A great site
At last a site dedicated to the ship i served on as a stoker.
Keep it going
Les
First may i say what a fitting site this is. Secondly does anyone know the wherabouts of Giani Codognotto (probably the wrong spelling!) He left the mob around 1990'ish and went to OZZ. He left as an LRO(T)but was probably only an RO when on the Cov during the war. If anyone remembers him or knows of his whereabouts this would be great.
Many thanks in advance.
god bless all of the sailors of the royal navy and let this serve as a reminder that our true friends are the white english speaking people of the world with some exceptions of course.
Myself and a shipmate are putting together a book of Dits and funnies from the Falklands 82, if you have any thing,that you think would be worth being included please contact me. All profits will be donated to the new Falklands charity. We are looking for Dits, Funnies, Stories, Poems & any thing you can remember thats not been told before.
Thanks for your time gents
Bob
Great to have a beer or 12 with the Cov lads at Sultan Polo Fields on 15/06/02 (Reunion). Didn't realise Dinger the Woo was on Cov as I have worked in the same building for the last 5 years !!!!
Excellent site.
Tanz. Broadsword Assoc.
A fitting tribute to a brave ships company. I spent my first draft on coventry 78 - 80 and my claim to fame is that I cut the commissioning cake with the then skippers Capt Chris Burns wife. A fine ship.
I was a young Seaman Radar in Coventry's first commission. I left her in December 1981 and actually served in the Falklands in HMS Cardiff. I remember many of those who lost their lives. I still have the Deployment Book from the Far East in 1980 and still have my original Locker Keys from 3Q mess that I keep with my medals. I hope you had a great reunion. She was a great ship.
I just read about may 25th I'm sorry to here about what happened, just when you think you know about every bad thing that's going on....my personal condolescences.
Hello, some friends and myself are looking for Robert Burns who was in cairns in 2000 we'd love to catch up. Sorry to use this site to contact. Thanks-Rochelle Bonney CAIRNS 2002
I would like to use your excellent web site to thank the person who left such a moving tribute to my son Adrian(Ade) Sunderland who was lost on H.M.S Coventry.Unfortuneately I could't read a name and was only in Portsmouth for the day.The web site is great.Thanks
A long awaited site.
For a long time there have been many questions unanswered about the tragic loss, I was fortunate to have been working for DRSO when channel 4 made the going critical documentary, some of which was filmed on " birmingham", sister ship to ,"coventry", the hairs on the back of my neck stood up when Bill Canning said that " he forgot coventry for a moment", and I remember thinking that there would be a lot of eyebrows raised in the MOD when this is screened
Members of 824 'F' Flight RFA Fort Austin, also remember your sad day. We wish you well.
This is an excellent website. Well done.
You should be very proud of your lad Patrick Joseph, he's obviously got your gift when it comes to organising stuff. I can see that I am one of many that have missed the Chatham event, however I was contacted by a number of ex-S&S (aka Douds, Wanty and Potts)a couple of weeks before and we think we will get together later this year, and possibly "up North". Can somebody please let me know what is happening at Sultan in June, although I guess it is the annual memorial service. Details please anyone! Once again, well done Damien and remember, as your Dad always used to say, "It's a big firm Partner". God Bless all who are reading this, especially Ex COV's.
Great website
It has all come back to me again particularly strongly this year. At quiet moments I recall the events of those few days and especially the 25th. I don't know how long I spent on the focsle that day bringing the Coventry boys on board. Their resolute composure and attitude that night is still with me in my thoughts, as are those I never knew that we left behind that night. It is now half a lifetime away yet nothing I have done or am likely to do will have as profound an effect on me as those few short days.