Gareth Parry obituary

Veteran Fleet Street journalist who joined the Guardian in the 1970s and reported on the Falklands war for the paper in 1982

Being marooned on a heavily laden ammunition ship in San Carlos Water at the height of the 1982 Falklands war during Argentinian air attacks was the punishment meted out to the Guardian journalist Gareth Parry by the Ministry of Defence for not writing what the military wanted.

Gareth, who has died of prostate cancer aged 86, had a tough war. He and the crew of the RFA Resource survived only because the bombs bounced off the supply ship and failed to explode – the Argentinian armourers had set the fuses wrongly.