And after this fashion, adventure to seek, Was
Sir Galahad made--as it might be last week!
Exactly as I would speak of my nearest personal friends or enemies, or my most familiar neighbors, he spoke of Sir Bedivere, Sir Bors de Ganis, Sir Launcelot of the Lake,
Sir Galahad, and all the other great names of the Table Round -- and how old, old, unspeakably old and faded and dry and musty and ancient he came to look as he went on!
A young man whom he had once corrected had christened him, half jestingly,
Sir Galahad, and certainly his life in London, a life which had to bear all the while the test of the limelight, had appeared to merit some such title.
So might our fame have gone down together for all time, and you be numbered with Sir Percival or
Sir Galahad, or all the other rescuers of oppressed ladies."
At this the susceptible Bell, like a true
Sir Galahad, dashed after the moving train and sprang aboard, without ticket or baggage, oblivious of his classes and his poverty and of all else except this one maiden's distress.
Top, the helicopter operated in the Falklands War on the afternoon of June 8 1982, rescuing Welsh Guardsmen from the bombed RFA
Sir GalahadMr Weston, a former Welsh Guardsman who suffered horrific burns when troop carrier the
Sir Galahad was bombed in 1982, is one of the site's founders.
Byline: RICHARD HARGREAVES on
Sir Galahad and ALEXANDRA WILLIAMS in Kuwait
Paras, medics, marines and pilots recall their own harrowing experiences while Simon, who is still trying to lay to rest the ghosts of 70 operations, revisits the new
Sir Galahad, the landing ship on which he received horrific burns and 47 men lost their lives.
ON JUNE 7, 1982, the Falklands War left a scar on scores of Welsh families with the death of 33 members of the Welsh Guards, many of whom were on board the Royal Navy ship
Sir Galahad as it waited to land at Bluff Cove.
Mr Weston, formerly of the Welsh Guards, suffered horrific burns when troop carrier the
Sir Galahad was bombed in June 1982.
Mr Weston, 46, underwent years of reconstructive surgery after he suffered major burns when the
Sir Galahad was bombed.
Sir Galahad - (Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail