A Message from the Falklands: The Life and Gallant Death of David Tinker is a book about Lieutenant David Hugh Russell Tinker (14 March 1957 – 12 June 1982), a Royal Navy supply officer who was killed in action during the Falklands War.
[1] Lieutenant David Hugh Russell Tinker (14 March 1957 – 12 June 1982)[2] was a Royal Navy supply officer, appointed as captain's secretary in the County-class destroyer HMS Glamorgan.
He was killed in action on 12 June 1982, shortly before the end of the Falklands War, when Glamorgan was hit by an Exocet missile fired from a lorry by an Argentine Navy team in Stanley; he was on duty as flight deck officer on the flight deck, aft of the ship, within the helicopter bay, at the time.
It was subsequently adapted by Louise Page as a stage play titled Falkland Sound, which was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1983.
[4] The book has also been published in Spanish in Argentina, and in German (as Das kurze Leben des Leutnants zur See David Tinker).