Corporal Graeme Stiff, aged 24, and Corporal Dean John, aged 25, both from the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, serving with the Light Aid Detachment, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, died during the afternoon of Sunday 15 March 2009, as a result of an enemy explosion. The men were involved in a vehicle movement to the west of Garmsir in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan when the Jackal (MWMIK) they were travelling in was struck by an explosive device and destroyed, killing both men.