Geoffrey Cardozo

In November 2020, he was nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize along Julio Aro, the Argentine Falklands War veteran who joined efforts with Cardozo in the DNA identification of remains in the Cemetery.

In 2019, he was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for services to UK/Argentina relations.

In 2018, Argentine war veteran Julio Aro traveled to the Darwin Cemetery. He then went to London, seeking for British veterans that he could gather information from. There, he met Geoffrey Cardozo, who acted as a translator. He provided Aro with a copy of his reports, indicating the location of bodies in the cemetery, which became crucial for the DNA identification of Argentine veterans remains in 2017.

In 2009, he was awarded a Mention of Honor by the Senate of Argentina. In 2018, he was distinguished by the Argentine Embassy in London, alongside Julio Aro, Gabriela Cociffi and Roger Waters.

In 1984, Cardozo was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.

Then, Cardozo was officially charged with the task of locating and burying the remains of Argentine soldiers dispersed in the island, and the creation of a cemetery (in land donated by Brooke Hardcastle, a farmer). To cope with this new task, he returned to London and assembled a crew of twelve men who would assist him in the Falklands, then came back to continue with the burying. The tasks started in January 1983.

Cardozo found according to different sources between 230 and 246 bodies: those he could positively identify; he provided a grave stone with personal details. For the 122 he could not identify, Cardozo took the decision to carefully bury them, including personal items he would find, in the idea that his work could someday help in identifying the Argentines. He wrapped the remains in three layers of sheets, plastic and PVC bags, including a note describing where the soldier had been found. They would be later placed in a wooden coffin. The burial works concluded on 19 February 1983, ten months after the end of the war. For the construction of the cemetery, he contacted the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Geoffrey Cardozo CBE (born 3 March 1950) is a former British Army Colonel, known for helping to identify the human remains of Argentine soldiers in the Argentine Military Cemetery, Falkland Islands. A number of the Argentine dead had graves marked "Argentine soldier only known to God" after the Falklands War due to the refusal of the Argentine government to assist in their identification. In the Army, he belonged to the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards.