Falklands War 1982
Three Supply Officers were killed in action, in the South Atlantic, during the Falklands War 1982:
- Lieutenant-Commander David I Balfour RN - Supply Officer, HMS Sheffield - killed 4 May 1982, age 37
- Lieutenant-Commander Richard (Rick) W Banfield RN - Supply Officer, HMS Ardent - killed 21 May 1982, age about 31
- Lieutenant David H R Tinker - Captain's Secretary, HMS Glamorgan - killed 12 June 1982, age about 23 (his letters were the basis for Professor Hugh Tinker's book about his son, A Message from the Falklands: The Life and Gallant Death of David Tinker (1982), on which a play was later based)
Their names are on the Falklands War memorial in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London.
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