Goose Green: A Veteran Remembers

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 10 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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John Geddes joined the Parachute Regiment as a teenager in the late 1970s. Within a couple of years he was plunged into the Falklands War and the bloodiest battle the British Army had fought since the Korean War. In this podcast John talks to Dan about his experience in the army, his memories of the Battle of Goose Green and subsequent Falklands actions. His recollections are remarkable and sometimes harrowing.

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0:38.5	Got a veteran on the podcast today, not a veteran of the second world war, the Korean
0:42.3	war, but a veteran of the Fortlands war.
0:45.3	John Geddes is a remarkable man.
0:47.7	He joined the Paris, Paris regiments teenager, what are Britain's most elite, are he formations?
0:54.0	He then served through the Fortlands war fighting at the Battle of Goose Green, which was
0:58.5	at the time one of the largest battles, if you like, fought by the British army since
1:02.9	the mid-century, since the Korean and the second world war.
1:06.2	Entire battalion was involved as well as support from other arms.
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