Si Biggs
45 CDO - The world's first heli-borne assault - Musketeer
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Egypt Period/ Conflict: Suez Crisis Year: 1956 Date/s: 5 November 1956 Operation Musketeer (French:...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6
- 4 min
45 Cdo Royal Marines - D Day
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 On the afternoon of the 5th...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6
- 2 min
Linking up with the Paras on the Orne Bridgehead
News was now received that the Brigade was to come under command of the Sixth Airborne Division, and that the 5th Parachute Brigade had...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6
- 2 min
D DAY Royal Marines
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 D Day was the largest...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 22
- 7 min
Operation Widgeon - 'Never in the history of human warfare have so many guns supported so few men'
Battle Prep The sun blazed down on the seemingly placid waters of the ever-present smoke-screen Lieutenant-General Ritchie, the Rhine on...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 20
- 3 min
Royal Marines - Operation Telic
Starting on 20th March 2003, 40 and 42 Commando moved into Southern Iraq to secure the oil fields and prevent Saddam from setting them on...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 12, 2022
- 2 min
Royal Marines - Operations in Ukraine
Royal Marines Commandos supported "discreet operations" when deployed to Ukraine earlier this year, a former head of the Marines has...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 29, 2022
- 5 min
The Battle for the Falklands - 40 Years On (Pt 2; June 1982)
3 Commando Brigade forward base established at Teal Inlet 1st June 1982 In preparation for major engagements, 42, 45 Commandos and 3 Para...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 14, 2022
- 7 min
45 RM Commando Operations around the Meuse Jan 1945
On the 14th January 1945 45 Commando under Command of Brigadier D Mills-Roberts DSO MC Irish Guards embarked at Tilbury Docks for...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 4, 2021
- 2 min
Cyprus Emergency - Operation Foxhunter
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Cyprus Period/ Conflict: Cyprus Emergency Year: 1956 Date/s: 10th – 12th December 1956 In the early...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 29, 2021
- 3 min
Withdrawal from Aden
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Aden Period/ Conflict: Aden Emergency (1964 - 67) Year: 1967 Date/s: 29th November 1967 Withdrawal...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 31, 2021
- 2 min
45 Cdo Royal Marines Formed in Burley Hampshire
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Great Britian Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 1st August 1943 45 RM Commando was...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 22, 2021
- 1 min
HMS Belfast to Victory the story of Ron Knight a Royal Marine on operations in Korea and Malaya
Welcome to the Royal Marines a Geo History Podcast telling the oral histories of former Royal Marines. The aim is to provide more depth...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 27, 2021
- 1 min
Attack on Belle Island
1 Cdo Bde HQ War Diary Jan-Mar 1945 27 January 1945 Brachterbeek No change in weather. More snow showers. 2215 - 45 RM Cdo sent a...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 25, 2021
- 1 min
Revolt in Tanganyika
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Taganyika Period/ Conflict: 1960's Year: 1964 Date/s: 25 January 1964 On the night of the 19/20...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 19, 2020
- 2 min
Battle of Crater & Rescue of Downed Sioux - Aden 1967
Battle of Crater Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Aden Period/ Conflict: Aden Emergency (1964 - 67) Year: 1967 Date/s: 20 June 1967...
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Simon Biggs
- Mar 23, 2020
- 3 min
Operation Widgeon - 46 & 45 Cdo RM Crossing the Rhine
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Wesel Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: Friday, March 23, 1945 Operation...
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Simon Biggs
- Feb 9, 2020
- 2 min
Operation Diesel - Raid on Drugs Factories
Operation Diesel Unit/ Formation: RM ASG Location: Helmand Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan (2001-) Date/s: 9th February 2009...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 23, 2020
- 2 min
L/Cpl HE Harden VC (RAMC) - attached to 45 (Royal Marine) Commando - 23rd January 1945 - Netherlands
Henry Eric Harden VC (23 February 1912 – 23 January 1945), 32 years old. Harden was a lance corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps...
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