Family tired of controversy that still surrounds the most high profile casualty of Falklands War
In an exclusive interview with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Solent, the son of the most high profile soldier to be killed during the Falklands War has hit back at persistent controversy surrounding his father’s death.
Lieutenant Colonel H Jones, the Commanding Officer of 2 PARA was fatally wounded making a lone charge towards Argentinian trenches at Darwin Hill. Posthumously, he was awarded the Victoria Cross with the citation describing “a devastating display of courage".
However, an official historian down-played its importance, some analysts have called it reckless, and one book even claimed H may have been shot by his own men.
Now, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Battle for Goose Green, H Jones' youngest son, retired Major General Rupert Jones, who went to Sherborne School in Dorset, has spoken out for the first time to defend his father's reputation - a soldier he also still refers to as 'H'.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Solent reporter Laurence Herdman went to meet him.
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