Si Biggs
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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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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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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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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Simon 'Peters' Biggs
- Aug 15, 2019
- 4 min
Mounted Marines and the Invasion of Java
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Java Period/ Conflict: Napoleonic Wars Year: 1811 Date/s: 4th August 1811` The invasion of Java...
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Simon Biggs
- Aug 7, 2019
- 2 min
RM Fighter Ace - Battle of Britain Pilot - Ronald Cuthbert Hay
Ronald Cuthbert Hay, DSO, DSC & Bar (4 October 1916 – 22 November 2001) was a British naval aviator and the only Royal Marine fighter...
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Simon Biggs
- Aug 7, 2019
- 2 min
Sinking of the Submarine Iride and Human Torpedoes - Captain Oliver Patch RM
22nd August 1940 Captain Oliver Patch RM flew in a flight of 3 swordfish to sink 4 Italian ships with 3 torpedoes in Bomba Bay. In July...
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Simon Biggs
- Aug 7, 2019
- 4 min
Remembering Lieutenant Colonel Mark “Foggy” Phillips MBE
Lieutenant Colonel Mark “Foggy” Phillips MBE, soldier, security consultant. Born: 24 May 1961, Gloucestershire. Died: 12 August 2017,...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 5, 2018
- 2 min
Col. Harold Ozanne DSO RMLI
Harold Ozanne was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry in 1897 Harold Ozanne portrait 1917 From 1889 to 1916 he served at...
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