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Simon Biggs
Dec 4, 20192 min read
24 Royal Marine Cadets Killed - Gillingham/ Chatham Bus Tragedy
Marching at the side of the road in full uniform were 52 members of the Chatham Royal Marine Cadet Corps, aged between 9 and 13 a bus...
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Simon Biggs
Nov 25, 20193 min read
The Battle of Graspan 1899
The Battle of Graspan during the Boer War. On the 25th November 1899 the Royal Marines were involved in the battle of Graspan (also known...
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Si Biggs
Nov 12, 20195 min read
Major-General Patrick Kay: Royal Marine who became a pioneer of amphibious warfare
Patrick Richard Kay, Royal Marine officer: born Blakeney, Norfolk 1 August 1921; MBE 1945, CB 1972; married 1944, Muriel Austen Smith...
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Simon Biggs
Aug 27, 20194 min read
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 7, 20194 min read
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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Si Biggs
Nov 10, 20181 min read
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old - For the Fallen (Ode to Remembrance) - Lauren
They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end...
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Si Biggs
Nov 4, 20182 min read
Wilfred Owen - War Poet - Killed 4th November 1918 #OTD
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) - who was born in Oswestry on the Welsh borders, and brought up in Birkenhead and Shrewsbury - is widely...
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Si Biggs
Nov 11, 20171 min read
We will remember them @SiBiggs @PoppyLegion
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and...
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Si Biggs
Nov 10, 20171 min read
For the Fallen (Ode to Remembrance)
They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end...
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Si Biggs
Nov 9, 20171 min read
A Poppy in Remembrance @PoppyLegion @gwtorg @Ghurkah_Brigade #Gurkah
At a petrol station in Abu Dhabi last year I was asked by the girl behind the counter what my poppy was for, so I told her. I asked...
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Si Biggs
Nov 2, 20173 min read
Yvonne Burney "Odette" the youngest female SOE agent passes away at 95
Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Baseden MBE; Legion of Honour; the Resistance Medal and the Croix de Guerre avec Palme, (20 January 1922 – 28...
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Si Biggs
Sep 18, 20171 min read
Imperial War Museum - Operation 'Market Garden' In Photos @I_W_M @16AirAssltBde @PoppyLegion
Dutch civilians and veterans of 1st Airborne Division watch as children place flowers on graves at the Arnhem-Oosterbeek Cemetery, 25...
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Si Biggs
Nov 11, 20161 min read
The Soldier
The Soldier If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall...
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Si Biggs
Nov 10, 20161 min read
For the Fallen (Ode to Remembrance)
They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end...
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Si Biggs
Nov 8, 20161 min read
A Poppy in Rememberance
At a petrol station in Abu Dhabi today I was asked by the girl behind the counter what my poppy was for, so I told her. I asked where...
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