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Royal Navy Surgeon-Captain Rick Jolly RIP

cafckev
cafckev Posts: 2,914
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This man deserves an RIP

The only person to receive an award from both the British and Argentine governments for saving many of lives during the Falklands War died over the weekend.

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  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,596
    Didn't he also write the definitive book of Naval slang ?
  • catfordmorry
    catfordmorry Posts: 556
    edited January 2018
    grumpyaddick said:

    Didn't he also write the definitive book of Naval slang ?

    Yes, ‘Jackspeak’.
    RIP
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,476
    RIP......Sir.......RIP.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    edited January 2018
    I did a 6 month tour in the Falklands back in 2012 (during the 30th anniversary of the conflict). I was 15 when the war took place and it especially resonated with me because my cousin fought on Mt Longdon with 3 Para.

    It was my first visit and I made the most of visiting all of the battle sites and areas associated with the conflict.

    Longdon was particularly 'special' to me of course, but visiting all of the sites was a totally humbling experience. Not least of all, an arranged visit to the 'farm outhouses' and old refrigeration plant that made up the Field Hospital in Ajax Bay. Here, Surgeon-Captain Jolly led a team that treated both British and Argentinian casualties.

    Just incredible, especially when you take into account just how austere the working environment was.

    RIP

    Ajax Bay in 2012:

    https://youtu.be/r6KAKY0mZqA
  • Ted\'s Addicksson
    Ted\'s Addicksson Posts: 555
    RIP Jack.
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,619
    No injured soldier (from either side) who made it to Jolly's field hospital died - all survived - the conditions he and his staff had to work in were not great - some of those injured had terrible life changing wounds (incl I believe SImon Weston) - RIP sir, you are definitely a hero
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Proper hero. RIP
  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,914
    soapy_jones said:

    Proper hero. RIP

    Yet if you look at the Regis RIP he has 74 comments, while this one has lass than 10 for a true legend and hero
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    RIP and thank you
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  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351

    RIP
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    cafckev said:

    soapy_jones said:

    Proper hero. RIP

    Yet if you look at the Regis RIP he has 74 comments, while this one has lass than 10 for a true legend and hero
    Sadly, to quote the title of another thread, 'an so it ever was.'

    I suppose on a football forum it should not come as a surprise that the death of an eminent footballer attracts a lot of comment but your point is a good one.

    RIP Royal Navy Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly.
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    RIP.

    I'm always impressed by those who can save lives in the most difficult of circumstances, especially war.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    RIP Rick
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    RIP
  • Addictedoldgit
    Addictedoldgit Posts: 1,825
    R.I.P
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    cafckev said:

    soapy_jones said:

    Proper hero. RIP

    Yet if you look at the Regis RIP he has 74 comments, while this one has lass than 10 for a true legend and hero
    No-one here had ever heard of him before today - we all knew who Cyrille Regis was - it's a football forum...
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    RIP. I'd never heard of him, but remember the Falklands War, but why wasn't he better known? He certainly deserved to be.
  • Redvalleyeast
    Redvalleyeast Posts: 4,689
    RIP Sir and thank you for your service.
  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    edited January 2018
    Cardinal Sin said:

    cafckev said:

    soapy_jones said:

    Proper hero. RIP

    Yet if you look at the Regis RIP he has 74 comments, while this one has lass than 10 for a true legend and hero
    No-one here had ever heard of him before today - we all knew who Cyrille Regis was - it's a football forum...
    I had.
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  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    I read a few books about the Falklands war and Rick Jolly cropped up several times. The survival rate would be amazing in a fully equipped hospital but what he and his team did in makeshift conditions was nothing short of miraculous.

    RIP
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    RIP
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    RIP. An amazing man, it does beg the question why he was never knighted when you have actors, pop stars & failed politicians receiving them.
  • Daarrzzetbum
    Daarrzzetbum Posts: 1,236
    Great man RIP Captain
  • EdgeleyAddick
    EdgeleyAddick Posts: 939
    Jolly wrote his own account of the Falklands in a short book that I read years ago and remember being fantastic called (I think) 'The Red and Green life machine '. If I remember correctly I think at one point he and his team carried out surgery in the makeshift hospital with an unexploded bomb in the room next door!

    A genuine hero.

    Thanks to the OP for this thread as I might have missed his death otherwise.
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,855
    RIP

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