The image was used as the inspiration for a statue of Royal Marine Commando that was unveiled by Margaret Thatcher at the Royal Marines Museum in Southsea, Portsmouth on 8 July 1992 to mark the 10th anniversary of the conflict. You don’t have to be a military man to enjoy Ian Gardiner’s The Yompers, the first memoir of the Falklands War to be written from behind the gun sights by a career Royal Marine. Our JMV275 is a dropside pickup, with a sturdy separate load bed, but a more ‘lifestyle’ option would be the Bergan – based on the same extended chassis but with an integrated bed that appears more akin to a ‘ute’. Gardiner’s account of the preparations, training and the ev

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Ian Gardiner has produced an excellent account of the service of 45 Royal Marine Command during the Falklands War. He covers the contemporary position of the Royal Marines – perennially under threat of extinction – and the circumstances that allowed the British to deploy successfully an amphibious capability that their Naval Headquarters had no experience in deploying and was overdue for the Government scrap heap while, despite the experience of many operations and exercises, using unsuitable command and control arrangements which led to misunderstandings that compounded the normal friction of war. This new book, by retired Brigadier RM, Ian Gardiner, marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Falkland war. IT is the most famous image of the Falklands War – six Royal Marines yomping with the Union Jack proudly flying from their radio aerial. Built in Yorkshire by Samson Engineering Limited, they come not only in a variety of two-seater bodystyles with payload capacity of up to 500kg, they are also available with an extended wheelbase for added practicality.

His helicopter helped to put the SAS onto the previously insignificant landmass of South Georgia in a snowstorm, and then to take them off again. The iconic image of the "Yomper" shows Royal Marines heading to Stanley at the end of the Falklands War in June 1982. Pete says: “Will scampered to get it and got a right telling off because he’d gone into a minefield. They knew what was coming, they had plenty of time to prepare, and they were only 250 miles from their own mainland.

Four days after the landing, one of those attacks sank the RFA ship Atlantic Conveyor, which was carrying Chinook helicopters that would have transported the Marines across East Falkland. It is of course based on the third-generation Suzuki Jimny, but its makers say it’s more than just a pickup conversion. Against the odds he rose through the ranks before being commissioned and eventually retiring as a Major.