Pair: Petty Officer C. Brassington, Royal Navy

South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (ALS (R) D149709W HMS Broadsword) official correction to ‘HMS’; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (PO (R) D149709W RN) extremely fine (2) £400-500

H.M.S. Broadsword took part in the 1982 Falklands War where, on 25 May 1982, she was providing air defence support to HMS Coventry, when a technical fault in her Sea Wolf missile system allowed two Argentine Skyhawks to sink the Coventry. H.M.S. Broadsword was hit by one bomb, which bounced up through the helicopter deck and destroyed a Lynx helicopter, before exiting and exploding harmlessly. She subsequently rescued 170 of the sunken Coventry's crew. She shot down one IAI Dagger during the war.