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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Si Biggs
- Aug 12, 2020
- 4 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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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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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 August 1940 Timothy...
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Simon Biggs
- Aug 27, 2019
- 4 min
Murder of Lord Mountbatten, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Marines
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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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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