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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> <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>British intelligence officer Nick Van Der Bijl listened to the latter part of the Royal Marine Commando raid conducted on the night of June 9/10, via the radio and heard about the evacuation of the casualties in Mortar Troop (under Lieutenant Dominic Rudd) on The Saddle at the base of Mount Kent.<ref>9 Battles To Stanley, Nick Van Der Bijl, p. 166, Leo Cooper, 1999</ref>Two nights before the final attack on Two Sisters Mountain, 45 COMMANDO suffered its first losses near Murrell River, a confusing episode involving a reinforced rifle platoon under Lieutenant Andy Shaw and two supporting patrols as well as some 50 Argentinian Army and National Gendarmerie Special Forces that Lieutenant Shaw had been forewarned lay ahead concealed in the rocky terrain. According to Lieutenant Shaw:{{cquote|We were under the threat of two enemy locations and two friendly locations as well, which funnily enough were trying to bring fire at ours. There was massive confusion ... We were at the height of our game to be honest. That is why we were operating on our own, that mattered, we were that professional. But nonetheless four men lost their lives. Somebody has to atone to that.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ri97aSDc98 THE MOUNTAIN WAY]</ref>}}

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> <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>British intelligence officer Nick Van Der Bijl listened to the latter part of the Royal Marine Commando raid conducted on the night of June 9/10, via the radio and heard about the evacuation of the casualties in Mortar Troop (under Lieutenant Dominic Rudd) on The Saddle at the base of Mount Kent.<ref>9 Battles To Stanley, Nick Van Der Bijl, p. 166, Leo Cooper, 1999</ref>Two nights before the final attack on Two Sisters Mountain, 45 COMMANDO suffered its first losses near Murrell River, a confusing episode involving a reinforced rifle platoon under Lieutenant Andy Shaw and two supporting patrols as well as some 50 Argentinian Army and National Gendarmerie Special Forces that Lieutenant Shaw had been forewarned lay ahead concealed in the rocky terrain. According to Lieutenant Shaw:{{cquote|We were under the threat of two enemy locations and two friendly locations as well, which funnily enough were trying to bring fire at ours. There was massive confusion ... We were at the height of our game to be honest. That is why we were operating on our own, that mattered, we were that professional. But nonetheless four men lost their lives. Somebody has to atone to that.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ri97aSDc98 THE MOUNTAIN WAY]</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 fragmentation round.<ref>[http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1980-89.htm 1945-2008 - Casualty Lists of the Royal Navy Compiled by Don Kindel]</ref>

The Argentinian Army's version of events is that the British ran into Kill zone ''"Charlie 101"'' and crossfire from two machine-gun teams and protecting riflemen with Senior Lieutenant Jorge Manuel Vizoso-Posse, second-in-command of the 602nd Commando Company's 3rd Assault Section and although wounded, shooting 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 fragmentation round.<ref>[http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1980-89.htm 1945-2008 - Casualty Lists of the Royal Navy Compiled by Don Kindel]</ref>Major Mario Luis Castagneto from the 601st Commando Company, claims the British Marines were forced to abandon much equipment during their getaway and that they were all collected and presented as war trophies to Argentinian War Correspondents waiting in Port Stanley.<ref>''"Otra acción, esta vez de la 602, al mando de su propio jefe, el mayor Rico, se produjo ... delante de la posición propia. En ella chocan con una fracción del SAS-Special Air Service- y, aunque los nuestros se encuentran en inferioridad de número que los comandos ingleses, no sólo lo baten y ponen en fuga sino que les capturan material que es traido de regreso a Puerto Argentino. Recuerdo que la televisión argentina filmó ese material capturado."'' La Guerra de Las Malvinas (Version Argentina), p. 645, Ediciones Fernández Reguera, 1987</ref>

 

==Postwar==

==Postwar==