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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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Si Biggs
- Mar 29
- 4 min
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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Si Biggs
- Mar 24
- 1 min
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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Si Biggs
- Mar 22
- 7 min
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...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 22
- 1 min
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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Si Biggs
- Mar 21
- 1 min
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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Si Biggs
- Mar 20
- 3 min
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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Si Biggs
- Mar 17
- 2 min
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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Si Biggs
- Mar 8
- 2 min
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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Si Biggs
- Mar 5
- 5 min
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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Si Biggs
- Mar 31, 2022
- 3 min
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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Si Biggs
- Mar 30, 2022
- 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
- Mar 23, 2022
- 2 min
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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Si Biggs
- Mar 22, 2022
- 9 min
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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Si Biggs
- Mar 21, 2022
- 2 min
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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Si Biggs
- Mar 13, 2022
- 3 min
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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Si Biggs
- Mar 12, 2022
- 3 min
47 Commando - Final Operations in Holland
Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: The Netherlands Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 12 March - 7 April 1945 On the 12...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 7, 2022
- 7 min
The Carlist Wars
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Spain Period/ Conflict: Carlist Wars Year: 1836 - 1837 When King Ferdinand died in 1833 there...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 25, 2021
- 1 min
Rescue of the Persian Residency
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Bushehr - Iran Period/ Conflict: 1800's Year: 1839 Date/s: 25th March 1839 After taking Karachi...
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Simon Biggs
- Mar 30, 2020
- 1 min
Battle of Lacolle Mills - Last American invasion of Canada
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Canada Period/ Conflict: War of 1812 Year: 1814 Date/s: 30 March 1814 The small garrison...
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