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Apply with £100,000 annual income or £100,000 savings or investments with HSBC UK or Premier status abroad. Hello and welcome to a special bonus episode of Battleground the Falklands War

with me Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

Today we're going to play an extended interview with Steve Hoyland,

who in 1982 was a parachute qualified radio operator in the Royal Artillery's

148 Commando Battery. Okay, thanks Steve. Thanks so much for agreeing to appear on the podcast.

So if we can start off with you just telling me your rank and unit in 1982 and then a little

bit about how you got down to the Falklands?

In 1982, I was a radio operator first class bracket to general, which means I was a sparker.

So I was responsible for radio communications as opposed to tactical or flag communications.

I'd been in one-four-48 battery since the previous April.

I'd done the commando course, followed by a lengthy naval gunfire assistant course,

which included communications, artillery spotter, naval gunfire assistant and artillery signaler.

I'd then got on to do P Company in the January of 1982.

Actually, I had my 21st birthday on P Company.

Another guy in the battery, Paul Burton and I had gone down into Aldershot with one

plastic bag full of trousers, one plastic bag full of shirts, all of them full of mud. We put them into

the laundret, went out a pint, went back, put them in the dryer, went back and had another

pint, and then went back to camp, ready for the steeplechase the next morning, and that was my

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