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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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    Mounted Marines and the Invasion of Java
    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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    RM Fighter Ace - Battle of Britain Pilot - Ronald Cuthbert Hay
    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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    Sinking of the Submarine Iride and Human Torpedoes - Captain Oliver Patch RM
    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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    Remembering Lieutenant Colonel Mark “Foggy” Phillips MBE
    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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    Col. Harold Ozanne DSO RMLI
    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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