OP Grapple 2 : 1 PWO - Battle Group Royal Navy Sea Kings provided helicopter support.
In October 1992, the British force (BRITFOR) deployed in the form of a brigade staff, infantry battalion, logistics battalion, reconnaissance squadron, and an engineer squadron. With a headquarters (HQ) and logistics base at Split on the Croatian Coast interestingly in an abandoned former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) Signals Intelligence Training Facility and other units deployed throughout centra
l Bosnia, the task of escorting UNHCR convoys began. In January 1993, Lance Corporal Edwards became the first British fatality, the victim of a sniper attack. 1 Cheshire's Regt. The 1st battalion The Prince of Wales's Own Battle Group Comprised the battalion reinforced by three platoons one each from the 1st Queens Lancashires, 1st Gordon Highlanders and the 1st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, with B Sqn The Light Dragoons and a field troop of the Royal Engineers under command. battle Group HQ was Vitez with A Company and C Company, B Company at Gornji Vakuf and B Sqn The Light Dragoons at Tulza.
