Si Biggs
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
- Jul 7, 2022
- 6 min
46 CDO Recce Patrol - & Milking Cows!
Unit/ Formation: 46 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 8 July 1944 8th July 1944 Place:...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 7, 2021
- 1 min
Normandy - A successful Recce Patrol
Unit/ Formation: 46 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 8 July 1944 Task To answer the following...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 10, 2020
- 4 min
46 CDO RM - The Attack on Le Hamel and Rots - 12 SS Pz Div
Unit/ Formation: 46 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 11 June 1944 The attempted...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6, 2020
- 1 min
46 Cdo RM - D Day - Capture of Petit Enfer
Unit/ Formation: 46 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 7 June 1944 Lieutenant Colonel Hardy’s...
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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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Si Biggs
- Aug 6, 2017
- 2 min
Formation of No. 46 (Royal Marine) Commando formed up in Dorchester August 1943
Formed at Dorchester, West Dorset, in August 1943 mainly from men of 9th RM Bn; 46 Commando RM had a brief but important role in the...
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