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In an exclusive interview with 大象传媒 Radio Solent, the son of the most high profile soldier to be killed during the Falklands War has hit back at persistent controversy surrounding his father鈥檚 death.

Lieutenant Colonel H Jones, the Commanding Officer of 2 PARA was fatally wounded making a lone charge towards Argentinian trenches at Darwin Hill. Posthumously, he was awarded the Victoria Cross with the citation describing 鈥渁 devastating display of courage".

However, an official historian down-played its importance, some analysts have called it reckless, and one book even claimed H may have been shot by his own men.

Now, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Battle for Goose Green, H Jones' youngest son, retired Major General Rupert Jones, who went to Sherborne School in Dorset, has spoken out for the first time to defend his father's reputation - a soldier he also still refers to as 'H'.

大象传媒 Radio Solent reporter Laurence Herdman went to meet him.