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Loss of the 'Live Bait' Squadron
Tuesday, 22 September 1914 SINKING OF CRUISERS ABOUKIR, HOGUE, CRESSY OF DUTCH COAST by U.9 They were known as the “Live Bait” Squadron,...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 11
- 4 min
Operation Pedestal - Royal Marines
“Many of these fine men and their ships were lost but the memory of their conduct will remain an inspiration to all who were privileged...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 13
- 2 min
Crossing the Helmand - Loss of Marine Dale Gostick
Unit/ Formation: RM ASG Location: Musa Qala Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan Year: 2008 Date/s: 25th May 2008. While returning to...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 30
- 5 min
Operation Corporate Roll of Honour
Operation Corporate Roll of Honour A total of 255 British servicemen and 3 Falkland Island civilians were killed during the Falklands...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 20
- 8 min
Easter Sunday 1943 - Loss of 2 LCG's and 70 Marines off Wales
On Easter Sunday 1943 (25 April), gale force winds and wild seas were lashing at the coast. Close to land, among the giant breakers and...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 20
- 2 min
Yangtse River Incident 1949
April-July 1949 HMS Amethyst sailed from Shanghai on 19th April to relieve HMS Consort at Nanking. Fired at on 20th at around 0900, 60...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 10
- 1 min
Lancashire Landing Cemetery
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Gallipoli peninsula Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: April 1915 - January 1916 84...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 9
- 3 min
HMS Hermes Sunk by Dive Bombers
After the raid on Colombo by the Japanese aircraft carriers on 5 April, known as the Easter Sunday Raid, Hermes and Vampire were sent to...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 4
- 6 min
Sinking of the Cornwall & Dorsetshire 45 Royal Marines Lost
On 2 April, Cornwall and her half sister, Dorsetshire, were detached from the fleet, Dorsetshire to resume an interrupted refit and...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 30
- 6 min
Belgrade War Cemetery, Serbia
Belgrade War Cemetery was created to receive the remains of British and Commonwealth casualties brought in from more than sixty small...
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Si Biggs
- Feb 7
- 6 min
Sinking of the Troopship Khedive Ismail
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Indian Ocean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 12th February 1944 On 5 February 1944...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 29
- 2 min
Glider Bomb Attack off Anzio - Loss of HMS Spartan
1944 Loss of AA Cruiser HMS Spartan at Anzio during Italian Campaign. At sunset on 29th January, the Luftwaffe began a glide bomb attack...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 13
- 3 min
Sinking of HMS Viknor
RMS Atrato was a UK steamship that was built in 1888 as a Royal Mail Ship and ocean liner for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. In...
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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 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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SImon Biggs
- Nov 16, 2021
- 2 min
Bugler CE Timmins, 14, Youngest Marine Killed in WW1
TIMMINS, CHARLES ERNEST PO/19601 Bugler Age:14 (Born 7th Dec. 1902) Royal Marine Light Infantry H.M.S "Cardiff.". Son of Private John...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
The Unknown Warrior Story - The Bands of HM Royal Marines
The Unknown Warrior, performed in the Royal Albert Hall for the Mountbatten Festival of Music 2021 by the Massed Bands of Her Majesty's...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 15, 2021
- 1 min
VJ Day - Victory over Japan - Royal Marines in SE Asia & the Pacific
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the Allies dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. On August 9, the Soviet Union declared...
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Royal Marines Association
- Jul 12, 2021
- 1 min
Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Royal Marines Charity News | 13.07.21 A message from Commandant General Royal Marines, Lieutenant General Rob Magowan CB CBE “You will be...
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