A FURNESS gunner has revealed the harrowing memories of the Falklands War in a book published to coincide with the conflict's 25th anniversary.
As a 16-year-old Cumbrian schoolboy, Tony McNally joined the Royal Artillery and at the time did not expect to be protecting ground troops with anti-aircraft fire on some little-known islands 8,000 miles away.
Speaking from his Dalton-in-Furness home, Mr McNally recounted the horrific moment when his equipment developed a fault leaving him to watch as 50 men burned to death.
Among those famously injured was Simon Weston who has done the foreword for Mr McNally's book Watching Men Burn.
For full story and how to obtain and copy of the book, see the May 18 edition of The Westmorland Gazette.
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