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Lake Commachio - Kangaroo Charge by C Troop
Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Lake Commachio Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 02 April 1945 It was shortly before...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 16
- 6 min
Force Primrose - Holding on at Ã…ndalsnes
A force of Marines, some 700 strong, with an anti-aircraft battery, was given notice on the 13th April to embark for Norway, with the...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 16
- 3 min
Royal Marines Burnout Gloster Gladiators on Frozen Lake Airstrip Norway
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Norway Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 30 April 1940 Westcott and ourselves...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 29
- 7 min
Battle of Gavrelle Windmill - highest number of Royal Marine causalities in a single day
Battle of Gavrelle Windmill Unit/ Formation: RMLI Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 28th to 29th April...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 25
- 3 min
Y Beach Gallipoli - Cliff Assault
Y Beach was one of three allocated to 29th Division on 25th April 1915, and was the most northern landing site on Cape Helles. The beach...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 18
- 2 min
Force Viper - Escape
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Burma Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: April 1943 Only 58 of the original 106...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 16
- 3 min
Attack on Emmahaven
Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Padang Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 16th April 1945 An airstrike was made on...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 14
- 1 min
1000'th Royal Marine killed in WW1
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Light Infantry Location: United Kingdom Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 14th April 1915...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 14
- 1 min
Landings at Namsos - Royal Marines first ashore in Norway
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Norway Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 14 - 16th April 1940 The first Allied...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 10
- 2 min
Sinking of the German cruiser Königsberg
Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Bergan Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: Date/s: 10 April 1940 Captain R.T. Partridge, Royal...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 11
- 3 min
Lt George Davies - Det 385
After Operation DEFRAUD in the Burmese jungle in 1945 the patrol leader, Major ER Breen, wrote in the debrief “I managed to collect a...
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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
- Apr 28, 2022
- 1 min
Royal Marines History in April
Come and search April on the Royal Marines Geo Map and explore 57 Pins...at present the first from 1775, click the map to open and search...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 26, 2022
- 2 min
SBS sail South on HMS Conqueror
In response to the invasion the British dispatched a Taskforce to recapture them under the codename Operation CORPORATE. Visibly the...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 25, 2022
- 1 min
Soldiers of the Sea
The quick march 'Soldiers of the Sea' was composed by Vivian Dunn and written for HMS Bulwark, the Royal Navy's first Commando Carrier in...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 25, 2022
- 1 min
In Our Own Words - 42 Commando in the Falklands War
Thirty eight former members of Lima Company Group, 42 Commando Royal Marines as well as four others having connections with Lima Company,...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 20, 2022
- 8 min
Easter Sunday 1943 - Loss of 2 LCG's and 70 Marines off Wales
On Easter Sunday 1943 (25 April), gale force winds and wild seas were lashing at the coast. Close to land, among the giant breakers and...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 20, 2022
- 2 min
Yangtse River Incident 1949
April-July 1949 HMS Amethyst sailed from Shanghai on 19th April to relieve HMS Consort at Nanking. Fired at on 20th at around 0900, 60...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 18, 2022
- 3 min
The first Shots of the Revolutionary War - Lexington Green
Unit/ Formation: His Majesty's Marine Forces Location: North America Period/ Conflict: American Revolutionary War (1775–83) Year: Date/s:...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 16, 2022
- 2 min
The Battle of San Juan
Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: San Juan Period/ Conflict: Year: 1797 Date/s: 17th April 1797 The Battle of San Juan was an...
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