Si Biggs
Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810)
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Guadeloupe Period/ Conflict: Napoleonic Wars Year: 1810 Date/s: 28 January and 6 February 1810...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 27
- 1 min
“Sarie Marais” – The March Past of the Royal Marines Commandos
'Sarie Marais' was an old South African folk song often used by the Boer Commandos and quickly spread at home by soldiers coming back...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 23
- 1 min
Operation Maude - Cutting Iraq's Communications Cable
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: S of Baghdad Period/ Conflict: Operation Granby (Gulf War 1) Year: 1991 Date/s: 23 January 1991. Led by Lt...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 22
- 2 min
Operation Shingle - Anzio Landings
Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 22 January 1944 The Battle of Anzio was a...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 14
- 7 min
45 RM Commando Operations around the Meuse Jan 1945
On the 14th January 1945 45 Commando under Command of Brigadier D Mills-Roberts DSO MC Irish Guards embarked at Tilbury Docks for...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 13
- 3 min
Sinking of HMS Viknor
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: West Coast of Ireland Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 13th January 1915 RMS Atrato...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 7
- 1 min
Amphibious Assault and Capture of Chuenpi and Taikoktow
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: China Period/ Conflict: Opium Wars Year: 1841 Date/s: 7 January 1841 Chuenpi was one of the...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 26, 2021
- 3 min
The First Fleet - Landing at Sydney Cove
Unit/ Formation: His Majesty's Marine Forces Location: Sydney Cove Period/ Conflict: 1700's Year: 1788 Date/s: 26th January 1788 Captain...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 10, 2021
- 4 min
Fight for survival - The Stuka bombing of HMS Illustrious
The Royal Navy’s first armoured carrier had been active a mere six months when her design and construction was put to the ultimate test....
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Si Biggs
- Jan 9, 2021
- 2 min
First to Land - Last to Leave - Withdrawal from Gallipoli
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Cape Helles Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1916 Date/s: 9th January 1916 At about 1:40pm on...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 23, 2020
- 2 min
L/Cpl HE Harden VC (RAMC) - attached to 45 (Royal Marine) Commando - 23rd January 1945 - Netherlands
Henry Eric Harden VC (23 February 1912 – 23 January 1945), 32 years old. Harden was a lance corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 17, 2020
- 2 min
Royal Marines Camel Corps - Battle of Abu Klea
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Sudan Period/ Conflict: Sudanese War Year: 1885 Date/s: 17th January 1885 Two of the...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 16, 2020
- 1 min
Submarine Canoe Insertion against the IRA
Operation Aweless Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Northern Ireland Period/ Conflict: Northern Ireland Conflict Year: 1975 Date/s:...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 16, 2020
- 2 min
Assault on the island of Kapelsche Veer
Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: The Netherlands Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 13th January 1945...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 12, 2020
- 8 min
Royal Marines & Royal Navy capture Salif in the Yemen 1917
Capture of Salif Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Salif Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 12th January...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 8, 2020
- 2 min
The Battle of Blaauwberg - Cape Town 1806
The Battle of Blaauwberg also known as the Battle of Cape Town fought near Cape Town on Wednesday 8 January 1806, was a small but...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 7, 2020
- 2 min
HMS Doris - Royal Marines in Intelligence Gathering and Demolition Raids in Syria
Commissioned in 1897, one of the nine-ship Eclipse class, Doris was a 5600-ton, 350-foot second-class protected cruiser, designed for...
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Simon 'Peters' Biggs
- Jan 31, 2018
- 1 min
The Royal Marines a Geo - History 1664 - Present - Amalgamation of the RMLI and RMA 1923
RM Barracks Forton and Eastney and the amalgamation of the Royal Marines Light Infantry and Royal Marines Artillery in 1923. The Royal...
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