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Lieutenant Roberto Nestor Estevez (24 February 1957, Posadas, Misiones / 28 May 1982, Falkland Islands) was an argentine army officer who was killed in action in the Battle of Goose Green during the Falklands War.-
On May 27, 1982, the Lt. Col. Angel Italo Piaggi, chief of Infantry Regiment 12, ordered to Estevez his section had to march to the front line of combat, because the British, who had landed in San Carlos bay on 1 May advanced to Darwin and had been clashes with troops of the Regiment.-
At 2 am on May 28 arrives at Boca House, near the present cemetery site of Darwin,was already a combat zone. Estevez made fan-shaped display its approximately forty men. Then went into battle against the british.-
During the Battle of Goose Green, where British forces were superior, Estevez was in combat with Section A of the 2nd. British Parachute Battalion, which had about a hundred well-armed troops and naval support.- During combat, Estévez traveled positions, shouting orders, under the British fire.
Coming out of a well, shot twice in the arm and one other in the left leg.- Staggering, he reached the well next well.- Estevez, who no care of their own wounds, he asked a soldier wounded and bleeding, called Sergio Daniel Rodriguez, if it was in good condition, took a FAL rifle and started shooting. There were five soldiers in the well at the time.-
Estevez, again regardless of his wounds, took the helmet of a dead argentine soldier and placed him in the head to protect the soldier Rodriguez. At that time received a new shot in the right cheek, and though I try to help him, after saying a few words that could not be understood, has died.-
Subsequently, because Estevez was loaded with grenades, his body was taken out of the well.- His body was shot many more.-
He is buried in the cemetery at Darwin in the Falkland Islands.
In posthumously was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, and received the Cross of Heroic Courage in Combat, the highest military decoration of Argentina.-
On May 27, 1982, the Lt. Col. Angel Italo Piaggi, chief of Infantry Regiment 12, ordered to Estevez his section had to march to the front line of combat, because the British, who had landed in San Carlos bay on 1 May advanced to Darwin and had been clashes with troops of the Regiment.-
At 2 am on May 28 arrives at Boca House, near the present cemetery site of Darwin,was already a combat zone. Estevez made fan-shaped display its approximately forty men. Then went into battle against the british.-
During the Battle of Goose Green, where British forces were superior, Estevez was in combat with Section A of the 2nd. British Parachute Battalion, which had about a hundred well-armed troops and naval support.- During combat, Estévez traveled positions, shouting orders, under the British fire.
Coming out of a well, shot twice in the arm and one other in the left leg.- Staggering, he reached the well next well.- Estevez, who no care of their own wounds, he asked a soldier wounded and bleeding, called Sergio Daniel Rodriguez, if it was in good condition, took a FAL rifle and started shooting. There were five soldiers in the well at the time.-
Estevez, again regardless of his wounds, took the helmet of a dead argentine soldier and placed him in the head to protect the soldier Rodriguez. At that time received a new shot in the right cheek, and though I try to help him, after saying a few words that could not be understood, has died.-
Subsequently, because Estevez was loaded with grenades, his body was taken out of the well.- His body was shot many more.-
He is buried in the cemetery at Darwin in the Falkland Islands.
In posthumously was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, and received the Cross of Heroic Courage in Combat, the highest military decoration of Argentina.-
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