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During the night of June 8/9, a British platoon of riflemen in the form of 1 Troop (under Lieutenant Mark Townsend) from 42 COMMANDO'S 'Kilo' Company raided the defenders on Mount Harriet. During their withdrawal, Towsend and his Marines got within 400 meters of some forty Argentinian Army Commandos in ambush positions near Murrell River, but the Argentinians held their fire, fearing the bulk of the British raiders would make good their escape at the first sound of gunshot. According to Captain Hugo Roberto Ranieri, a specialist sniper armed with a Weatherby.300 Winchester Magnum:{{cquote|We went out practically every night. The missions were all conducted at night... One time we went out with a very strong patrol to set up an ambush in the last foothills... quite close to Kent. The first night we set up the ambush, we received a warning from part of the ambush that informed us that about twenty Brits were heading our way. The thing is, they got within something like four-hundred meters; We could only see them with our night-vision devices... There was much tension since we could see them out in the open but we couldn't engage them so as to not let them get away, because it could very well be that they would get closer and fall into the trap. But it was not to be.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080330233141/https://www.siicsalud.com/dato/dat031/03327012.htm Médico y capitán en las Islas Malvinas]</ref>}}

During the night of June 8/9, a British platoon of riflemen in the form of 1 Troop (under Lieutenant Mark Townsend) from 42 COMMANDO'S 'Kilo' Company raided the defenders on Mount Harriet. During their withdrawal, Towsend and his Marines got within 400 meters of some forty Argentinian Army Commandos in ambush positions near Murrell River, but the Argentinians held their fire, fearing the bulk of the British raiders would make good their escape at the first sound of gunshot. According to Captain Hugo Roberto Ranieri, a specialist sniper armed with a Weatherby.300 Winchester Magnum:{{cquote|We went out practically every night. The missions were all conducted at night... One time we went out with a very strong patrol to set up an ambush in the last foothills... quite close to Kent. The first night we set up the ambush, we received a warning from part of the ambush that informed us that about twenty Brits were heading our way. The thing is, they got within something like four-hundred meters; We could only see them with our night-vision devices... There was much tension since we could see them out in the open but we couldn't engage them so as to not let them get away, because it could very well be that they would get closer and fall into the trap. But it was not to be.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080330233141/https://www.siicsalud.com/dato/dat031/03327012.htm Médico y capitán en las Islas Malvinas]</ref>}}

Four Royal Marines (Sergeant Robert Leeming, Coporals Peter Fitton, Andrew Uren and Marine Keith Phillips) were near Murrell River, reportedly due to friendly fire, with this action taking place on the night of 9/10 June.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wPs9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=M0kMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4053,288159&dq= Marines shot comrades in Falklands conflict]</ref><ref>''"It was during the night of 9/10 June that a returning British fighting patrol from 45 Commando Royal Marines was mistaken for the enemy and Sergeant Bob Leeming, Corporal Andy Uren, Corporal Pete Fitton, and Marine Keith Phillips were killed in the subsequent firefight which occurred just before the main assault on Two Sisters"'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20200627050402/http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/main.php?g2_view=keyalbum.KeywordAlbum&g2_keyword=killed+in+action&g2_itemId=7711&g2_fromNavId=xf7a6e6e3 COMMANDO Veterans Association]</ref><ref>According to British NCO Neill Randall:''"The worst news of the day is that there was a friendly-friendly contact during the night. 45 had shot up their own mortar section who had deployed to support the evening patrols. There are 4 dead & 1 very seriously injured. These things are bound to happen during the confusion of war, but it bloody well shouldn't most of this is down to poor passage of information between senior commanders. But its the grunt on the ground that faces the consequences of their inadequacies."''

Four Royal Marines (Sergeant Robert Leeming, Coporals Peter Fitton, Andrew Uren and Marine Keith Phillips) were killed near Murrell River, reportedly due to friendly fire, with this action taking place on the night of 9/10 June.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wPs9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=M0kMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4053,288159&dq= Marines shot comrades in Falklands conflict]</ref><ref>''"It was during the night of 9/10 June that a returning British fighting patrol from 45 Commando Royal Marines was mistaken for the enemy and Sergeant Bob Leeming, Corporal Andy Uren, Corporal Pete Fitton, and Marine Keith Phillips were killed in the subsequent firefight which occurred just before the main assault on Two Sisters"'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20200627050402/http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/main.php?g2_view=keyalbum.KeywordAlbum&g2_keyword=killed+in+action&g2_itemId=7711&g2_fromNavId=xf7a6e6e3 COMMANDO Veterans Association]</ref><ref>According to British NCO Neill Randall:''"The worst news of the day (June 10) is that there was a friendly-friendly contact during the night. 45 had shot up their own mortar section who had deployed to support the evening patrols. There are 4 dead & 1 very seriously injured. These things are bound to happen during the confusion of war, but it bloody well shouldn't most of this is down to poor passage of information between senior commanders. But its the grunt on the ground that faces the consequences of their inadequacies."''<ref>According to Corporal Vincent Bramley: ''"As we were milling around a peat fire with 9 Squadron, a chopper came down from one of the mountains. Some nosy lads ran towards it and quickly brought back the report that some of the Marines had had a blue-on-blue contact that night. A returning patrol had stumbled on a mortar-based team asleep and had shot them as they lay in their sleeping bags. There were three to four dead. Whatever we felt about the Marines, we were sorry for them that day."'' Excursion to Hell, Vincent Bramley, p. 73, Pan Books, 1992</ref>The Argentinian Army's version of events is that Senior Lieutenant Jorge Manuel Vizoso-Posse, second-in-command of the 602nd Commando Company's 3rd Assault Section, shot dead in the back all four Royal Marines that night at point-blank range<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170212091658/http://www.laperlaaustral.com.ar/contenidos/index.php?Itemid=127&catid=56:companiadecomandos602&id=105:lacompania602decomandos&option=com_content&view=article La Compañía 602 de Comandos]</ref>for which he would win the Heroic Valour Cross<ref>[http://diarioepoca.com/92321/Vizoso-Posse-superandoacute-la-guerra-gracias-a-su-fe-y-excepcional-valor/ Vizoso Posse, superó la guerra gracias a su fe y excepcional valor]</ref>, Argentina's highest military decoration. Senior Lieutenant Horacio Fernando Lauría and Sergeant Orlando Aguirre claimed to have destroyed a British machine-gun with rifle-grenades fired at ''a punto'' (horizontally) in this action with the British admitting one Royal Marine killed due to a fragmentary round.<ref>[http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1980-89.htm 1945-2008 - Casualty Lists of the Royal Navy Compiled by Don Kindel]</ref>

[https://web.archive.org/web/20160813090450/http://www.commandogunner.co.uk/page19.html A Falklands Diary]</ref>The Argentinian Army's version of events is that Senior Lieutenant Jorge Manuel Vizoso-Posse, second-in-command of the 602nd Commando Company's 3rd Assault Section, shot dead in the back all four Royal Marines that night at point blank range<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170212091658/http://www.laperlaaustral.com.ar/contenidos/index.php?Itemid=127&catid=56:companiadecomandos602&id=105:lacompania602decomandos&option=com_content&view=article La Compañía 602 de Comandos]</ref>for which he would win the Heroic Valour Cross<ref>[http://diarioepoca.com/92321/Vizoso-Posse-superandoacute-la-guerra-gracias-a-su-fe-y-excepcional-valor/ Vizoso Posse, superó la guerra gracias a su fe y excepcional valor]</ref>, Argentina's highest military decoration. Senior Lieutenant Horacio Fernando Lauría and Sergeant Orlando Aguirre claimed to have destroyed a British machine-gun with rifle-grenades fired at ''a punto'' (horizontally) in this action with the British admitting one Royal Marine killed due to a fragmentary round.<ref>[http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1980-89.htm 1945-2008 - Casualty Lists of the Royal Navy Compiled by Don Kindel]</ref>

==Postwar==

==Postwar==