Thursday, February 9, 1956, Quartermaster Sergeant Alfred Wheeler and Mne. Benet Blakeway, HQ 3 Commando Brigade, died during operations in Cyprus. They both perished from exposure on anti-terrorist operations after their vehicle fell into a deep gully in the Troodos Mountains during a blizzard. A newspaper report in the Daily Mirror on the 11th February 1956 states: "RSM gave life for Commando. One of the two British Commandos who died in a mountain blizzard in Cyprus was a