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In the evening of 25 January, Ryan, MacGown and Phillips left the tank berm they had stayed in during the day and headed north.

Phillips was already suffering from hypothermia, and could not hold his M16 / M203, which was handed to MacGown.

As they continued, Phillips ' condition worsened to the point where he mistook his black gloves for the colour of his own hands, and began yelling out loud.

Eventually, Phillips lost contact with the other two somewhere around 2000 hrs, and would have died a short time later.

According to Ryan and MacGown, they both searched for Phillips for about twenty minutes before deciding to continue without him, while according to General Sir Peter de la Billière, only Ryan searched while MacGown waited.

Ryan also indicated that he didn't know Phillips was necessarily dead when he wrote: " I hoped to God that was doing the same.

That he would find his way down ..." and later " there were still five to account for ," though MacGown admitted he knew Phillips was dead at the time.

Sergeant Vince Phillips, a nineteen year veteran of the British Armed Forces, and eight year veteran of the Special Air Service, was 36 when he died of hypothermia in the evening of 25 January 1991 in North Western Iraq.