Three Argentine bombs hit him. Sir Galahad lost 48 soldiers in total, along with more than 30 of his Welsh Guards companions, many of whom were burned to death.
Simon’s mom didn’t recognize him when he came back to Britain with 46% burns. He’d lost an ear and his eyelids, and the remainder of his head, both arms, and much of his body had been devastated.
His bodyweight would ultimately reduce from 16 stone to barely eight stone as a result of the trauma. Over the next four years, he endured over 90 procedures, the majority of which were skin transplants.
Simon Weston, seated on a stool in the kitchen of his Cardiff home, is solemn when he recounts his great luck.
