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    Bombardment of Algiers - Fighting Slavery
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 26, 2021
    • 2 min

    Bombardment of Algiers - Fighting Slavery

    Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Algiers Period/ Conflict: Slave Wars Year: 1816 Date/s: Sunday 27th August 1816 The bombardment...
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    Landings on Long Island
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 21, 2021
    • 2 min

    Landings on Long Island

    Unit/ Formation: His Majesty's Marine Forces Location: North America Period/ Conflict: American Revolutionary War (1775–83) Year: 1776...
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    Operation Jubilee - Amphibious Raid on Dieppe - 19th August 1942
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 19, 2021
    • 4 min

    Operation Jubilee - Amphibious Raid on Dieppe - 19th August 1942

    The Dieppe Raid, Operation Jubilee, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War. The raid took...
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    Royal Marines Light Infantry - RMLI Action's in North Russia
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 17, 2021
    • 2 min

    Royal Marines Light Infantry - RMLI Action's in North Russia

    Unit/ Formation: RMLI Location: Medvezhjya Gora Period/ Conflict: Year: 1919 Date/s: 17th August 1919 The 6th Battalion RM in action...
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    VJ Day - Victory over Japan - Royal Marines in SE Asia & the Pacific
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 15, 2021
    • 1 min

    VJ Day - Victory over Japan - Royal Marines in SE Asia & the Pacific

    On August 6 and 9, 1945, the Allies dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. On August 9, the Soviet Union declared...
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    HMS Nigeria Torpedoed
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 11, 2021
    • 2 min

    HMS Nigeria Torpedoed

    Unit/ Formation: RM Band Service Location: Mediterranean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 12th August 1942 On 12 August...
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    Landings at Jounieh with 1,500 Turks and Marines
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 11, 2021
    • 1 min

    Landings at Jounieh with 1,500 Turks and Marines

    Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Lebanon Period/ Conflict: Egyptian–Ottoman War Year: 1840 Date/s: 11 August 1840 In June...
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    Holmes's Bonfire
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 7, 2021
    • 1 min

    Holmes's Bonfire

    Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Netherlands Period/ Conflict: Second Anglo Dutch War Year: 1666 Date/s: Sunday 8th August...
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    Formation of 43 Cdo Royal Marines
    Si Biggs
    • Jul 31, 2021
    • 1 min

    Formation of 43 Cdo Royal Marines

    nit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 1st August 1943 43 Commando was formed on 1st...
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    45 Cdo Royal Marines Formed in Burley Hampshire
    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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    A Brief History of 44 Royal Marine Commando at The Battle of Hill 170
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 31, 2020
    • 10 min

    A Brief History of 44 Royal Marine Commando at The Battle of Hill 170

    Kindly written for RoyalMarinesHistory.com by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson www.ohwhataladylikewar.com @LMBD1418 Following the Battles of Kohima...
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    Liberation of Toutainville
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    Liberation of Toutainville

    Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 26 August 1944 On 24 August Y Troop...
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    Murder of Lord Mountbattten
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    Murder of Lord Mountbattten

    Unit/ Formation: RM People Location: Mullaghmore Period/ Conflict: The Troubles Year: 1979 Date/s: 27 August 1979 Murder of the Colonel...
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    Battle of Bladensburg, Burning of Washington, USMC Commandant's House
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    Battle of Bladensburg, Burning of Washington, USMC Commandant's House

    Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: North America Period/ Conflict: War of 1812 Year: 1814 Date/s: 24 August 1814 A British force of...
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    The Battle for Hong Kong and the Lisbon Maru Massacre - Royal Marines Roll of Honour
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 12, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Battle for Hong Kong and the Lisbon Maru Massacre - Royal Marines Roll of Honour

    The Battle for Hong Kong Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Hong Kong Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 8–25...
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    Portland Royal Naval Cemetery - Remembering Royal Marines who gave their lives
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    Portland Royal Naval Cemetery - Remembering Royal Marines who gave their lives

    2 Royal Marines, killed in France during WW2 and more recently Afghanistan, lay at Portland Royal Naval Cemetery; WRIGHT, James Robert...
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    Attacks on invasion barges at Rotterdam
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 3, 2020
    • 1 min

    Attacks on invasion barges at Rotterdam

    Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Calais and Rotterdam Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 04/08/1940 Timothy Armstrong...
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    Murder of Lord Mountbatten, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Marines
    Simon Biggs
    • Aug 27, 2019
    • 3 min

    Murder of Lord Mountbatten, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Marines

    Murder of the Colonel Commandant of the Royal Marines, Admiral of the Fleet, The Earl Mountbatten of Burma KG GCB OM GCSI GCIE GCVO DSO...
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    The Atlantic Memorial Campaign
    Simon Biggs
    • Aug 26, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Atlantic Memorial Campaign

    HRH The Princess Royal becomes Patron of Battle of the Atlantic Memorial campaign The charity behind the campaign to build the UK’s...
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    Operation Jubilee - Amphibious Raid on Dieppe - 19th August 1942
    Simon 'Peters' Biggs
    • Aug 19, 2019
    • 4 min

    Operation Jubilee - Amphibious Raid on Dieppe - 19th August 1942

    The Dieppe Raid, Operation Jubilee, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War. The raid took...
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