It was interesting to read in Patrick Bishop's book 3 Para that at least one of the battlegroup's fatalities was during a mission to recover a downed UAV (a Phoenix?) in Helmand Province. It struck me as I read it that this defeated the whole point of UAVs and seemed a terribly unjustified waste of life. It would seem just typical of the UK's penny-pinching approach to warfare.
I don't seem to remember it getting much press coverage at the time - certainly more newsworthy than the William story, but that's verging on thread creep...