21 May 2026
On the 44th anniversary of the loss of HMS Ardent and 22 members of her crew during the Falklands Conflict on 21 May 1982, the HMS Ardent Association held a memorial service at the Falklands Maritime Memorial in Belvedere Gardens on Plymouth Hoe.
Other association members and friends of the HMS Ardent Association also held memorial services around the country for individual crew members and to remember the loss of HMS Ardent.
Kev Johnson lays the flower tribute at the Plymouth Falklands Memorial .
Following the laying of a floral tribute, Association member Stephen Earp read the Roll of Honour, followed by a two-minute silence. The short service concluded with the Kohima Epitaph, “When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today,” read by Tony Ray.
Tony Ray reads the Kohima Epitaph
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Other Services
From left to right:
Poole memorial for Stephen Ford
Margate memorial for Alistair Leighton
Ardent Anchor memorial (NMA) for Shaun Hanson
Portsmouth Havant memorial for Michael Foote
The Type 21 Memorial at Campito Hill, East Falkland, overlooking San Carlos Water
