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Auction: 19022 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 2126

Autographs
Falkland Islands
1982 Surrender Document
1982 (14 June) uncoded and unclassified telex to a list of recipients reads,

"The fol is a text of a msg from 317.1 passed via Hereford to addressees above, msg begins.

HQ LFF1 Port Stanley. In Port Stanley at 9 o'clock pm Falkland Islands time tonight the 14 Jun 1982, Major General Menendes surrendered to me all the Argentine armed forces in East and West Falkland, together with their impedimenta. Arrangements are in hand to assemble the men for return to Argentina, to gather in their arms and equipment and to mark and make safe their munitions. The Falkland Islands are once more under the government desired.

...By their inhabitants. God save the Queen. Signed JJ Moore"


With illustrated mount in frame. A magnificent and historic document of this recent conflict. Photo

Major General Sir John Jeremy Moore, KCB, OBE, MC & Bar (1928 – 2007) was a British senior Royal Marine officer who served as the commander of the British land forces during the Falklands War in 1982. Moore received the surrender of the Argentine forces on the islands.

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