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Cook's Voyages - Marine Greensdale Lost Over Board
Unit/ Formation: His Majesty's Marine Forces Location: South Pacific Ocean Period/ Conflict: 1700's Year: 1769 Date/s: Sunday, 26th March...

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Mar 26, 20244 min read
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Battle of Bapaume 1918
24th -25th March 1918 First Battle of Bapaume (Second phase of First Somme 1918) involving the 63rd Division. Operation Michael (German:...

Si Biggs
Mar 24, 20241 min read
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SS Bayano 1915 - 20 RMs lost
11th March 1915 SS Bayano, armed merchant cruiser, torpedoed and sunk by U.27 in North Channel. HMS Bayano, built in 1913, was originally...

Si Biggs
Mar 11, 20242 min read
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The First Battle of Canton
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: China Period/ Conflict: Opium Wars Year: 1841 Date/s: 18 March 1841 The First Battle of Canton...

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Apr 20, 20233 min read
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Loss of Trinidad by own Torpedo
HMS Trinidad was a Royal Navy Fiji-class light cruiser. She was lost while serving in the Arctic on convoy duty after being damaged by...

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Mar 29, 20234 min read
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Rescue of the Persian Residency
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Bushehr Period/ Conflict: 1800's Year: 1839 Date/s: 25th March 1839 After taking Karachi HMS...

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Mar 25, 20231 min read
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Operation Widgeon - 'Never in the history of human warfare have so many guns supported so few men'
Battle Prep The sun blazed down on the seemingly placid waters of the ever-present smoke-screen Lieutenant-General Ritchie, the Rhine on...

Si Biggs
Mar 23, 20237 min read
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Ambush in Belfast - Marine James Macklin Killed
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Belfast Period/ Conflict: Northern Ireland Conflict Year: 1974 Date/s: 22 March 1974 Marine James...

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Mar 22, 20231 min read
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3 Cdo Bde - CH46 Crash - Kuwait
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Kuwait Period/ Conflict: Iraq War (2003 - 2009) Year: 2003 Date/s: 21 March 2003 At around midnight...

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Mar 21, 20231 min read
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Royal Marines - Operation Telic
Starting on 20th March 2003, 40 and 42 Commando moved into Southern Iraq to secure the oil fields and prevent Saddam from setting them on...

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Mar 20, 20233 min read
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Royal Marines' Cemetery - San Juan Island National Historical Park
The Royal Marines who died during the joint occupation of San Juan Island with the USMC rest in honor here. Jim Crook was one year old...

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Mar 17, 20232 min read
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HMS Mount Stewart and the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment
This secret unit specialising in irregular warfare consisted of servicemen from the Navy, Royal Marines and Army under the command of...

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Mar 8, 20232 min read
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Amphibious Raids against the Turkish Guns
Royal Marines acted as landing parties in the Naval campaign against the Turkish fortifications in the Dardanelles before the Gallipoli...

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Mar 5, 20235 min read
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SS Motagua Collision
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Irish Coast Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 19th March 1918 SS Motagua armed...

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Feb 19, 20232 min read
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Royal Marines Stopping the Fins in Russia
HMS Glory was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia,...

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Apr 1, 20223 min read
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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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Mar 30, 20226 min read
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12th Battalion Royal Marines in Shanghai - 1927
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: China Period/ Conflict: 1900's Year: 1927 Date/s: March 1927 27th January 1927. Portsmouth gave...

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Mar 24, 20222 min read
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Operation Endowment - 43 Commando Royal Marines
Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Yugoslavia Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 22 March 1944 On the 22nd – 23rd March...

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Mar 22, 20229 min read
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William Faulkner, a Dragoon of the 600 & Marine during the Indian Mutiny
Another of the survivors of the Six Hundred who took part in the famous Balaclava charge has passed away in the person of William Henry...

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Mar 21, 20222 min read
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Battle of Tamai
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Tamai Period/ Conflict: Sudanese War Year: 1884 Date/s: 13 March 1884 The Battle of Tamai...

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Mar 13, 20223 min read
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