Si Biggs
Landing in Akabah
HMS Minerva log 31 December 1914 Akabah Lat 29.5, Long 35.0 5.00am: Course & speed as requisite approaching Akaba & anchoring at head of...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 31, 2022
- 1 min
Across the world in 2022 with the Royal Marines
Due to a technical c#ck up I am unable to access my usual mail service and so if you are receiving this blog you will see last months...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 31, 2022
- 1 min
December 'Dits' since 1664
There are now 681 pins on the Royal Marines Geo History Map, 42 of which are for December including the 'First Action' of 1664. Please...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 27, 2022
- 2 min
Messina earthquake
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Sicily and Calabria Year: 1908 Date/s: 28th December 1908 Messina earthquake and tsunami with a...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 23, 2022
- 2 min
Capture of Goree
Location: Goree Period/ Conflict: Seven Years' War Year: 1758 Date/s: Sunday 24th December 1758 A squadron of four ships of the line, two...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 3, 2022
- 2 min
SS Ceramic loss of DEMS crew
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Atlantic Ocean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 6th December 1942 On 3 November 1942...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 1, 2022
- 4 min
Shore Party during the Greek Intervention
In August 1916, a pro-Allied group launched a coup against the monarchy in the Noemvriana, which the Allies sought to support. HMS...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 31, 2021
- 1 min
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 - Tawau Assault Group
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
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Mediterranean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 25th November 1941 1941 Loss of...
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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 - Boxing Day 1943
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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