Moody Brook

Lieutenant-Commander Sanchez-Sabarots could hear nothing of any action at Government House, nor from the distant landing beaches; nevertheless, he ordered the assault to begin.

Lieutenant-Commander Sanchez-Sabarots continues his account: The noise of the grenades alerted Major Norman to the presence of Argentines on the island, and he thus drove back to Government House.

Realising that the attack was coming from Moody Brook, he ordered all troop sections to converge on the house to enable the defence to be centralised.

Although there were no Royal Marine witnesses to the assault, descriptions of the state of Moody Brook barracks afterward contradict the Argentine version of events.

Major Norman describes walls of the barracks as riddled with machine gun fire and bearing the marks of white phosphorus grenades - "a classic housekeeping operation".

Site of Moody Brook Barracks, the island garrison for the Falklands. A small detachment of Royal Marines was stationed here from the 1960s until the invasion of 1982 when Argentine forces forcibly took the barracks and evicted the British troops. The barracks site is that of the old wireless station. Only foundations remain today.
Stanley Harbour and the town , from the air. Moody Brook can just be seen in the distance
Early mapping of Moody Brook (Dom Pernety, 1769)