In April 1982, as a young conscript of 19, he was called in by his colonel and told he was going to the newly conquered Falkland Islands, due to his good English, his father being an English teacher. Wearing civilian clothes, with one uniform in his bag, he stepped off the plane in Port Stanley and took up residence in an outbuilding at Government House, the home of expelled governor, Rex Hunt. By accident, Milton Rhys was to find himself at the centre of events, witness to the unfolding disaster that was the Argentine occupation.