Tony Scales was playing cards below deck with three friends — a game of Sergeant Major — when the announcement came over the loudspeaker: “Take cover!” He barely had time to react before the explosion ripped through the ship.
“It was like being inside a big flame,” he said, standing on a wind-blasted hillside looking over the bay where the RFA Sir Galahad was hit by Argentine jets on June 8, 1982. A total of 48 people were killed, including 32 Welsh Guardsmen, in one of the deadliest single incidents for British forces in the Falklands conflict.
