Wreath Laying on Sunday 12th November 2017

As part of the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the Falkland Islands conflict in 1982, members of the Falkland Islands Association laid wreaths at their local war memorials in honour of all those who lost their lives or were injured in protecting the Falkland Islands from Argentine aggression.

Today, the role of the Falkland Island Islands Association to “assist the people of the Falkland Islands to decide their own future for themselves in accordance with their own wishes”. That means we are here to support the Falkland Islanders’ right to self-determination by maintaining a membership base of people who love the Falklands and who are prepared to raise their voices whenever that right comes under threat and from whatever quarter.

Alan Huckle, FIA Chairman, attended the start of the Poppy Appeal in Brecon, Wales on 30 October organised by the Brecon Branch of the Royal British Legion with the support of SAMA 82.

Alan also laid wreaths on behalf of the FIA at Old Radnor, Powys and In Kington, Herefordshire.

FIA Executive Committee Member, Peter Johnson, also laid a wreath In Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, on behalf of the Association.