Falklands war

[carlis]

Dear friends: I´m looking for information about which british unit was that fight and ambush to a patrol of argentinian 602 comandos company. The fight was in Bluff Cove mount and the argentinians had two men killed. Thank you.

[SamHamam]

It was an ambush by elements of 22 SAS. So far as I know the only public infomation about it is in the book "The Fight for the malvinas" by Martin Middlebrooke

[Royal]

I take it you mean Top Malo House - the only incident anywhere near Bluff Cove that I can think of involving 602 Coy.

The battle occured on the 31st of May 1982 and 6 members of 602 Coy were killed when their patrol harbour (sited in the house, for some reason :cantbeli: ) was assualted by members of the Royal Marines Mountain & Arctic Warfare Cadre (3 members of the Cadre were wounded in the assault).

[SamHamam]

Top Malo house was a different, and rather better known, engagment. The ambush on Bluff Cove Mount was about a day before, an offshoot of D Sqn's occupation of Mt Kent. 30 as opposed to 31 May I think.

[Royal]

D Sqn's occupation of Mount Kent and subsequent relief by K Coy and eventually the remainder of 42 Commando between the 26th and 30th of May is well documented. There is nothing that I'm aware of in the British records documenting an action by D Sqn, outside the immediate area of Mount Kent. They were engaged by the Argentine defenders on the night of the 30th (which delayed the releif by 42), but the action was with regular (conscript) Argentine infantry.

[SamHamam]

Not suprising really that there are things that you are not aware of, is it?

The element of Argentinian 602 Cdo Coy that lost the two men was commanded by a Captain Fernandez (OC 2nd Assault Section 602 Cdo Coy). Their presence (after a helo landing) was first picked up by an M&AW OP on Bull Hill. (Stone's team I think)

[CX20]

Not suprising really that there are things that you are not aware of, is it?

Calm it down, no need to make snide remarks.

In case you don't know, Royal is a serving Royal Marines officer and has served in such Recce units. I would trust his experience and knowledge over someone who simply recites information from a book.

[SamHamam]

Who you believe is entirely up to you. It was after all quite a long time ago.

There is, I think, only one omniscient being and, in the words of the T shirt, he failed the Commando course!

[Royal]

Calm down ladies :D

I didn't say it didn't happen, merely that I wasn't aware of it.

I didn't join until four years after the events and didn't do my cadre for four years after that. It just strikes me as strange that it's not mentioned in any of the unit reports (which I re-read a few years ago, while at staff college) and I don't remember any of the lads who were with the Cadre at the time mentioning it...