With the capture of Mount Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge and Sapper Hill the Falkland Islands conflict was effectively over and at 2100 hours on the 14th June 1982 the commander of the Argentine garrison in Stanley, General Mario Menendez, surrendered to Major General Jeremy Moore.
2 para, our sister battalion. to our right, mount tumbledown, scots guard. and it was decided that regimental pride dictated we wanted to be the first into stanley, so helmets came off, red berets came on, head down, bum up and. ..into stanley. as soon as the argies saw how many of us there were which was basically a battalion on the ground by the time the helicopter had dropped everybody off advancing towards the capital, they ran off it, back into stanley. and that was about midday on the 14th ofjune. and great rejoicing. is there a white flag flying? there is a white flag flying over stanley. bloody marvellous. chuckles the argentines had surrendered. after 7a days, the war was won. the long journey home was on the horizon. only now was the cost of the conflict becoming clear to those in the south