In 2008, the Welsh Guards moved from London to Lille Barracks in Aldershot, in preparation for deployment on Operation Herrick 10 in Afghanistan. The regiment departed in April 2009. Six members of the battalion were killed, among them a platoon commander, a company commander and the battalion commander. It was the first time since the Korean War that a single battalion had lost officers at these three key levels of leadership. The six-month tour was chronicled in the book "Dead Men Risen; the Welsh Guards and the Defining Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan" by Toby Harnden, which won the Orwell Prize for Books 2012.