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Battles of Mount Harriet and Two Sisters Mountain (view source)
Revision as of 23:26, June 6, 2017
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==British advance==
==British advance==
Following Kilo Company's helicopter flight forward on the night of 31 May/1 June to reinforce D Squadron 22nd Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment defending Mount Kent from Argentinian Special Forces attacks, the rest of 42 Commando arrived in helicopters, and were eventually ordered to secure Mount Challenger.
45 Commando's march to Bluff Cove Peak from San Carlos Water via Teal Inlet ended on 4 June, and the next week was spent patrolling No-Man's-Land, leading to a number of bloody clashes with the Argentinians. On their second patrol, Lieutenant Chris Fox's Recce Troop reached the end of Two Sisters, and when discovered, were counterattacked but killed five of the Argentinians. Later, Lieutenant David Stewart 3 Troop of X-Ray Company, 45 Commando retreated in a similar action, and Lieutenant Mark Townsends's 1 Troop from Kilo Company, 42 Commando had raided the main Argentine positions on Mount Harriet from Goat Ridge. Also, Sergeant Ian Allum's Recce Platoon and other men of the 2nd Scots Guards Battalion completed the mapping out of the Argentinian positions by patrolling from their hide in Port Harriet House. Sadly these successes did not come without loss. On the night of 9-10 June a fighting patrol from Yankee Company stumbled upon a forward mortar camp killing four of the sleeping Royal Marines.
45 Commando's march to Bluff Cove Peak from San Carlos Water via Teal Inlet ended on 4 June, and the next week was spent patrolling No-Man's-Land, leading to a number of bloody clashes with the Argentinians. On their second patrol, Lieutenant Chris Fox's Recce Troop reached the end of Two Sisters, and when discovered, were counterattacked but killed five of the Argentinians. Later, Lieutenant David Stewart 3 Troop of X-Ray Company, 45 Commando retreated in a similar action, and Lieutenant Mark Townsends's 1 Troop from Kilo Company, 42 Commando had raided the main Argentine positions on Mount Harriet from Goat Ridge. Also, Sergeant Ian Allum's Recce Platoon and other men of the 2nd Scots Guards Battalion completed the mapping out of the Argentinian positions by patrolling from their hide in Port Harriet House. Sadly these successes did not come without loss. On the night of 9-10 June a fighting patrol from Yankee Company stumbled upon a forward mortar camp killing four of the sleeping Royal Marines.