Special Boat Service

He had previously worked with the Royal Marines and Special Boat Service.

Mr Purja, who served with the Gurkhas and the Special Boat Service, landed safely and was found "on his knees crying" by Spanish officials, the inquest was told.

RM Poole was the home of the Special Boat Service and the landing crafts following the Falklands Conflict in 1982 - which the Queen's son Prince Andrew fought in.

Mr Shiel, who joined the marines aged 16 and went on to serve in the Special Boat Service, said he attended the funerals for all three of his fallen comrades but when he returned to duty "everything seemed to carry on as normal after that as if nothing had ever happened".

The British landings on the Falklands started on the 21 May 1982, during which he navigated his team's Wessex 3 when they flew a group of Special Boat Service men on to the Falkland Islands, the first unit ashore of the main forces.