The fine and well documented South Atlantic Medal 1982 with rosette awarded to Steward Adrian Greenwood, Royal Navy, who was injured while rescuing a shipmate from a burning helicopter hangar when H.M.S. Glamorgan was hit by an Exocet missile on 12th June 1982. During the attack by a land launched Exocet missile on 12th June 1982, Glamorgan lost 14 men killed. The fires from this attack were brought under control and she was back in service 36 hours later. Greenwood would later serve aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia for 10 months, having his photograph taken with Princess Diana and the then Prince Charles.
South Atlantic Medal 1982, with rosette on ribbon; (STO A P GREENWOOD D176976K HMS GLAMORGAN) loose-mounted for wear.
Condition: Nearly Extremely Fine
Along with:
H.M.S. Cap Tally
Kit Record Book for RM and RN Personnel.
copy Royal Navy Certificate of Discharge
Original Royal Marines certificate of discharge
Letter from the Ministry of Defence dated 13th May 1985 informing him that the Trustees of the Fleet Amenities Fund had received money to enable a grant to him of £150 for his future needs.
Guildhall Lunchen Program in honour of the Task Force signed by Margaret Thatcher and Jeremy Moore.
An album of photographs covering the Falklands and with numerous news cuttings reporting his bravery, homecoming and service aboard Britannia.
Adrian Peter Greenwood was born in Halifax, Yorkshire on 16th November 1962. He would later join the Royal Navy as a Junor Assistant Steward 2nd Class on 29th May 1979, becoming Assistant Steward whilst serving aboard Glamorgan on 1st September 1980.
He was advanced to Steward aboard the same ship on 28th February 1981. He was injured when Glamorgan was hit by an Exocet missile on 12th June 1982. He later reported ‘We knew it was coming about 20 seconds before it hit. The captain turned the ship around by 35 degrees to make it a smaller target. But it exploded as it hit us. It shouldn’t really do that, they’re fitted with delay timings. It broke in two, half went into the helicopter hangar and half into the galley through the deck. It cut a groove in the flight deck, I was overcome by gas. The gas was highly toxic, escaping from the hangar’. Greenwood continues 'A friend and I went in to save renewne who was inside a compartment which was blazing. There were firefighters about, but we knew he was in there so we went in. In the hangar, something had hit him across his legs and he couldn’t walk. I think he had broken both his legs and had severed tendons. We were beaten back the first time but we knew he was in there and we knew he was in there and we knew we had to go in. The man probably didn’t know who pulled him out. After all it’s all in the line of duty.’
At first he did not known he had been hurt apart from feeling a little sick. Then someone said he looked white. The ship’s doctor said his lungs might swell up in a few days. He was consequently transferred to H.M.S. Hermes, where he spent five days in the sick bay.
He would return home in November 1982, Greenwood had a shore posting at H.M.S. Pembroke before joining the Royal Yacht Britannia, where he served as Steward from January to October 1983. He returned to sea one last time aboard H.M.S. Glamorgan from May 1984 to January 1985, before being transferred to the Royal Marines on 11th February 1985. He was discharged from the Royal Marines on 18th September 1985
