(Reel 1) CU of landing ship Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Sir Galahad (L3005) leaving Plymouth (April). Helicopters on deck are seen with troops at attention lining ship's rail, as the ship passes the camera. RFA Sir Percival (L3036) at sea, two days out. Men at exercise on deck. Flight Deck Officer (FDO) climbs into a Westland Gazelle helicopter. Other Gazelles on deck. CU of RFA Sir Percival alongside camera ship. Good shots of Gazelle on deck of Sir Geraint and take-off. Wessex helicopter ferries supplies to distant ship.

Crossing the line ceremony. Neptune (Lieutenant Jackson) and others (Sergeant Major Gilbert wearing bra) duck first-timers.

MS Ascension Island. Pan of fleet at anchor. Men unloading and transferring stores via motorised raft. Landing craft F4 from HMS Fearless comes alongside with men and equipment onboard. MS of SS Canberra. Evening shot, in silhouette, of a helicopter coming into land on the deck of Sir Geraint. FDO waves it down. Helicopters (Gazelle/Sea King/Wessex) ashore on runway with Hercules transport aircraft in the background. REME personnel at work on helicopters.

On board Sir Geraint. REME personnel play up to the camera. Sunset at sea. Westland Wessex helicopter flies over with a Gazelle helicopter slung beneath and deposits it on Sir Geraint. Signalling with lamp from Sir Geraint to ships in line astern. Helicopters (Sea Kings?) ferrying items between ships. Drone launched from RFA Sir Geraint for target practice. Explosions in air as ships fire on the drone. On deck, CU of missile being loaded into missile launcher on Gazelle. MS of Gazelle taking off from deck, which then overflies the ship and test fires its missiles. The helicopter then returns to Sir Geraint.

(Reel 2). Newspaper headline (Daily Mirror) 'HMS Sheffield is sunk'. CU of a slightly tattered Blue Ensign (flown on vessels commanded by officers of Royal Naval Reserve) flying. Ships in line ahead and astern.

Gazelle prepared for take-off in rough weather. Good shots of preparations, take-off and return. CU loading missile into missile launcher on Gazelle. Pan of fleet at sea.

Dawn sequence in San Carlos Bay, as Gazelle comes into land on RFA Sir Geraint. A Sea King flies low over the sea. LS of Fanning Head at the far end of San Carlos Bay, with a ship at anchor in the distance. D-Day. Stores, equipment and vehicles are lifted ashore by Sea King helicopters. Good shots of unloading from RFA Sir Geraint. An Argentinian Mirage fighter aircraft flies low over the fleet and the bay. Bomb splashes are seen around the ship, as ships at anchor fire on the aircraft.

LS of Fanning Head with ship, HMS Argonaut, on fire in the distance. CU damaged HMS Argonaut on 1st/2nd day after attack (23/24 May), the hole in ship's hull clearly seen.

HMS Antelope on the morning of 24 May, the day after the unexploded Argentinian bomb detonated, showing blackened and smoking superstructure, filmed from RFA Sir Geraint.

Pan of fleet. Bofors gun onboard Sir Geraint manned by Royal Navy personnel.

MS of HMS Antelope, with smoke pouring from her superstructure, the bows and stern slowly raise, as she splits in two and sinks, 24 May.

Rainbow in San Carlos Bay. Personnel from A-Flight 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron climb aboard a Sea King helicopter D+3. Ashore, San Carlos settlement after an air raid D+4/5. Digging slit trenches. Pan of the bay. Gurkhas and Scots Guards manning guns. Troops moving out in file.

On board Sir Geraint D-Day 21 May. REME men oversee one of the first lifts ashore; guns are lifted off by a Sea King. Bomb splashes in the sea, as an Argentinian aircraft streaks over and is hit by a missile(?). The aircraft tumbles from the sky into the sea. Further bomb splashes around ships at anchor, as an Argentinian aircraft flies very low and straddles a ship with bombs. The aircraft (or another?) is hit by a missile and explodes.

Captain D E Lawrence (DSC) of RFA Sir Geraint. A fully armed unit boards a Sea King and is ferried ashore. Ashore four days later (25 May?) showing troops dug in and a Gazelle helicopter hidden in a dip between hills. A REME unit plays cricket at the base of Mount Kent (c.30 May). Shot of camouflaged base camp and stores. Men look up, as two Argentinian aircraft fly low between the hills.

Damaged Argentinian helicopters and equipment are seen strewn on the ground and British troops stand around. A destroyed Argentinian tank, with more wrecked helicopters and equipment. Smoke rises from a nearby building.

A pan of a settlement (San Carlos?). Ships in the bay at sunset.

Amateur colour film taken on board the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Sir Geraint of the journey to the Falkland Islands in April 1982, the landings and subsequent Argentinian Air Force attacks in San Carlos Bay in May.

Notes

Summary: Richard Elliott was a Staff Sergeant in REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers)attached to A Flight 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron on board Royal Fleet Auxilliary Sir Geraint.

Technical: shot on Super 8mm, blown up to 16mm.