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Mike Samuelson a Royal Marines Officer; 40 decades of War and Peace (Keeping) Pt1
Please listen to my latest podcast, and interview with Mike Samuelson. Mike Samuelson a Royal Marines Officer: Lympstone to N Iraq via...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 13, 2021
- 7 min
Battle of the River Plate - Royal Marines HMS Exeter B Turret - HMS Ajax X Turret
During the Battle of the River Plate 15 Marines lost their lives mostly manning turrets, HMS Exeter 10 Marines killed, HMS Ajax 5 Marines...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 11, 2021
- 1 min
Granby & Marlborough Square Barracks
Unit/ Formation: Barracks/ Camps Location: Devonport Period/ Conflict: 1700's Year: 1764 Date/s: Tuesday 11th Dec 1764 The Plymouth...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 10, 2021
- 2 min
Sinking of HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales
Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Malaysia Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 10 December 1941 Force Z went to sea...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 8, 2021
- 1 min
40 Cdo in Sabah 1964
Images of 40 Commando Royal Marines in Sabah, North East Borneo July 1964 to December 1964, 40 Cdo's 4th of 6 tours of Borneo between...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 6, 2021
- 3 min
40 CDO Recce of Pelagosa
Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Pelagosa Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 5th December 1943 40 R.M. COMMANDO REPORT...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 5, 2021
- 2 min
The Admirals Regiment - The Marines First Action - attack on the Dutch Smyrna fleet
Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Cadiz Period/ Conflict: Second Anglo Dutch War Year: 1664 Date/s: December 1664 The...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 4, 2021
- 2 min
Cyprus Emergency - Operation Foxhunter
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Cyprus Period/ Conflict: Cyprus Emergency Year: 1956 Date/s: 10th – 12th December 1956 In the early...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 2, 2021
- 2 min
Winston Churchills Flying Instructor Killed
Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Royal Naval Air Station Eastchurch Period/ Conflict: 1900's Year: 1913 Date/s: 2nd December 1913...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 30, 2021
- 6 min
HMS Barham - 126 Royal Marines Lost
1941 Loss of Battleship HMS Barham while supporting cruisers searching for a German convoy to Benghazi. She was under constant...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 31, 2020
- 2 min
'Soldier an' Sailor Too'
By Rudyard Kipling Kipling wrote this poem in 1896, during Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901), when nationalism was at a peak in England....
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Si Biggs
- Dec 30, 2020
- 1 min
1664 - 2020 Royal Marines Around the World in December
Come and see 37 pins for December and read about Royal Marines in action in this month through out our History; 1664: The Admirals...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 26, 2020
- 2 min
Sinking of the Scharnhorst
Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: North Cape Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 26th December 1943 Battle of the North...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 25, 2020
- 1 min
RM Gun Crew Killed Christmas Day 1940 in Surface Action with Admiral Hipper
On 25 December 1940, whilst part of the escort to convoy WS-5A, a troop convoy to the Middle East, Berwick was in a surface engagement...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 23, 2020
- 2 min
The Dubai Incident
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Dubai Period/ Conflict: 20th Century Year: 1910 Date/s: 24th December 1910 The East Indian...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 16, 2020
- 2 min
Operation Red Dagger
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Nad-e-Ali Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan (2001-) Year: 2008 Date/s: 7 - 25th December 2008...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 8, 2020
- 1 min
Policing Sevastopol - Royal Australian Navy
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Sevastopol Period/ Conflict: Russian Intervention Year: 1918 Date/s: 8th December 1918 On 8...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 3, 2020
- 5 min
DayForce - Bougainville Campaign
Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Bougainville Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: Monday 18th December 1944 A...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 2, 2020
- 2 min
Taking of Lagos - War on the Slave Trade
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: West Africa Period/ Conflict: War on the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Year: 1851 Date/s: 26th -...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 12, 2020
- 3 min
Plymouth Argyll Royal Marines - Fall of Singapore
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Singapore Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: December 1941/ February 1942 On December 10th...
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