A Very British Civil War in Pembrokeshire: Armour of the Fish Guards

[Jemima Fawr]

Another report from Huw Puw, roving reporter for the Fish Guardian, who this week is reviewing the armoured might of the Fish Guards:

http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2019/02/15/a-very-british-civil-war-in-pembrokeshire-1938-armour-of-the-fish-guards/

[carlos marighela]

That’s a rarebit of kit that is! They should have the opposition on toast.

[Jemima Fawr]

Indeed!  I think the appropriate response, when taking credit for other people's work is;

Glad you like it, boys!

Amicalement.

[carlos marighela]

Be careful! The chap in question is a trained Federal Police sniper personally responsible for the sinking of the Sheffield and the total destruction of the Montoneros.

[Jemima Fawr]

Be careful! The chap in question is a trained Federal Police sniper personally responsible for the sinking of the Sheffield and the total destruction of the Montoneros.

[carlos marighela]

Ah! Do I detect another unbeliever? Strange how the chap doesn’t appear in the official and quite comprehenive Argentine MoD’s list of all who served in ‘Las Malvinas’. Far be it for me to suggest he’s a Walt but you know what they say about ducks. 

[Jemima Fawr]

Ah! Do I detect another unbeliever? Strange how the chap doesn’t appear in the official and quite comprehenive Argentine MoD’s list of all who served in ‘Las Malvinas’. Far be it for me to suggest he’s a Walt but you know what they say about ducks. 

Yes, that was my thought.  Some years ago I accepted information he gave me in good faith and gave him a credit in something I wrote.  However, as you say, evidence has come to light that his credentials don't stack up, so I removed the credit.  As it happens, his information regarding Argentine infantry regiment organisation proved to be accurate and conformed with more recently-translated Argentine sources, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the information came from his own personal experience - he could simply have had access to those sources before they were translated.

[carlos marighela]

Argentina had universal military service. There is a better than fair chance that if he is indeed an argentino, as opposed to Bill Armintrout dressed in a different wig to the one he uses when he’s being an assistant editor, then he might have retained any organisational idiosyncracies in his bonce. Of course having served as a conscript is a different proposition to having served in the Falklands. It was a fairly narrow class of men who were called up at the time and a even narrower group who were sent with the regiments deployed.

Far too many things just don’t stack up and never did, almost from the start. His timeline, his fantastical pre-Falkland career as law student and police marksman etc. I have travelled to Buenos Aires on numerous occasions. Fantastic military museum if you ever get the chance. Some years ago I happened to be in town and invited him to catch up for a coffee. He made some remark about going to Colombia. By curious coincidence, so was I in fact I was on my way to a month’s sojourn there. I remarked on the fact. In the twinkling of an eye that thread disappeared.

Make of that what you will.

Anyway apols for the thread hijack, back to normal programming riffing on the cultural tropes of my forebears. 

[Jemima Fawr]

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