He was one of just two recipients of the VC - Britain and the Commonwealth's most prestigious medal for gallantry - in the conflict.
Sergeant McKay had been killed five months earlier at the Battle of Mount Longdon during the Falklands War. The moving images of the three of them with Sergeant Ian John McKay's posthumous Victoria Cross, taken after their meeting with the Queen, appeared in newspapers and on TV screens worldwide. Instead, the little girl insisted on wearing her favourite black velvet dress, with her long brown hair in bunches, when she went to Buckingham Palace with her mother, Marica, and half-brother Donny, 14.
Five-year-old Melanie McKay refused to wear the new maroon dress bought specially for her father's investiture in November 1982.
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