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42 Cdo run 2 COVID Testing Centres
Royal Marines have helped key workers in the South-West test for coronavirus as they ran two mobile centres. Personnel from 42 Commando...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 29, 2020
- 5 min
Lance Corporal Parker RMLI VC - Gallipoli
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Gallipoli Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 30 April 1915 In April 1915, the...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 28, 2020
- 1 min
Royal Marines in Gallipoli - 28 April 1915
Gallipoli - 28 April 1915 Royal Marines were involved in both the initial, unopposed, landings on the peninsula and the subsequent...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 28, 2020
- 1 min
Battle of Gavrelle Windmill
Battle of Gavrelle Windmill Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 28th to...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 26, 2020
- 1 min
Battle of Gate Pā (Pukehinahina) - New Zealand
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: New Zealand Period/ Conflict: The New Zealand wars Year: 1864 Date/s: 29th April 1864 On 26...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 25, 2020
- 4 min
Operation Paraquet - Recapture of South Georgia
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: South Georgia Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 25 April 1982 South Georgia ...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 23, 2020
- 3 min
The Raid on Zeebrugge - 23 April 1918 - 'For England and St George!'
Mounted by two thousand men of the 4th Battalion Royal Marines and Royal Navy under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes. The...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 23, 2020
- 1 min
Operation Lighter
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Koufonisi Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 16 April 1942 The 11th Battalion...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 16, 2020
- 2 min
Operation Valentine- Occupation of the Faroe Isles
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Faroe Islands Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 13th April 1940 The British...
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Simon Biggs
- Apr 10, 2020
- 2 min
Operation Banner - Roll of Honour
Operation Banner was the operational name for the British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 2007, as part of the...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 10, 2020
- 2 min
Attack on Rangoon & Assualt on the Dallah Stockades
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Burma Period/ Conflict: Second Anglo-Burmese War Year: 1852 Date/s: 10th April 1852 During...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 8, 2020
- 3 min
Major Anders Lassen VC - SBS - Lake Commachio 8 - 9th April 1945
On the night of 8th – 9th April 1945 eighteen men from the Special Boat Service set out across Lake Comacchio to attack heavily defended...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 7, 2020
- 2 min
Commando raid on the East Coast railway - North Korea
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Korea Period/ Conflict: Korean War Year: 1951 Date/s: On 7 April 1951 On 2 April 1951, 21...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
The Battle of Basra
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Iraq Period/ Conflict: Iraq War (2003 - 2009) Year: 2003 Date/s: 6 April 2003 42 Commando...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 3, 2020
- 2 min
Rescue of the Russian Royal Family
Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Koreiz Period/ Conflict: 1900's Year: 1919 Date/s: 7 - 11th April 1919 Eager to leave home and...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 2, 2020
- 3 min
'Mills Marauders' - The Battle of Grytviken
Nine Marines from Naval Party 8901 who, together with a further twelve from H.M.S. Endurance, under Lieutenant Keith Mills, R.M., held...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 1, 2020
- 3 min
Operation Roast - Lake Commachio
Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 2 - 18th April 1944 It was shortly...
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Simon Biggs
- Dec 31, 2019
- 2 min
Loss of T Company - HMS Fidelity
Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Azores Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 30th December 1942 T-Company was formed...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 28, 2019
- 1 min
Royal Marines in Gallipoli - 28 April 1915
Gallipoli - 28 April 1915 Marines were involved in both the initial, unopposed, landings on the peninsula and the subsequent amphibious...
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Simon Biggs
- Apr 24, 2019
- 3 min
The Raid on Zeebrugge - 23 April 1918 - 'For England and St George!'
Mounted by two thousand men of the 4th Battalion Royal Marines and Royal Navy under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes. The...
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