Another eight Paras had been wounded in an earlier Friendly fire incident.A Royal Marine Commando Sapper (Sergeant Peter Thorpe) was also wounded on the western lower slopes of Mount Longdon in the daylight hours of 12 June, when he was sent forward to assist members of an artillery battery trapped inside a disabled Snowcat tracked vehicle that had run into a minefield.The Argentines suffered 31 dead and 120 wounded, with 50 also being taken prisoner.