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Hear the stories of the veterans who served in the Falklands conflict at Fort Nelson in a new exhibition: Falklands 40 – What Portsmouth Saw.

The exhibition features recordings of local men who served in the Falklands War discussing their experiences of returning to the south coast, alongside BBC South footage and images from The News of the emotional, spectacular homecomings to Portsmouth Harbour.

A display of small arms used by the forces in the Falklands War will also be on show in the exhibition, which runs from 25 May to 25 September (free admission).

Fort Nelson witnessed the comings and goings of the Falklands War with ships departing and arriving from its high viewpoint overlooking Portsmouth Harbour.

Forty years on, this exhibition shows the emotion of the homecomings after British troops gained control of the Falklands in June 1982, following the surrender of the Argentinian forces.

Portsmouth played a huge part in the Falklands War. Of the 127 ships that sailed the 8,000 miles to the Falklands, a third of the taskforce were prepared in the dockyard.

Royal Armouries would like to thank ten Falklands veterans who filmed at Fort Nelson, telling their stories of the conflict and coming home to Portsmouth:
Barrie Jones – HMS Intrepid
Alan ‘Sharkey’ Ward - HMS Herald
Mark Edwards – HMS Yarmouth
Chris Purcell – HMS Sheffield
Derek ‘Smokey’ Cole – HMS Intrepid
Joe Erskine – HMS Hydra
Andy Gatherer – HMS Glamorgan
John Galway – HMS Sheffield
Philip Currier – HMS Hermes
John Mathison – Royal Marines