Si Biggs
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...
top of page
ROYAL MARINES HISTORY.com
Search
Si Biggs
- 7 days ago
- 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...
32 views0 comments
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...
44 views0 comments
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...
21 views2 comments
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...
41 views0 comments
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...
30 views0 comments
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,...
52 views0 comments
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...
71 views0 comments
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...
54 views0 comments
Si Biggs
- Mar 23, 2022
- 5 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...
162 views0 comments
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...
11 views0 comments
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...
102 views0 comments
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...
124 views0 comments
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...
148 views0 comments
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...
18 views0 comments
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...
105 views1 comment
Si Biggs
- Mar 28, 2020
- 2 min
"Operation Chariot" - St Nazaire Raid - 28th March 1942 #RoyalMarines
The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was a successful British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St...
167 views0 comments
Si Biggs
- Mar 24, 2020
- 2 min
Force Viper - Ambushing the Japanese
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Burma Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 20th March 1942 Force "Viper"...
253 views0 comments
Simon Biggs
- Mar 23, 2020
- 3 min
Operation Widgeon - 46 & 45 Cdo RM Crossing the Rhine
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Wesel Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: Friday, March 23, 1945 Operation...
216 views0 comments
Si Biggs
- Mar 16, 2020
- 2 min
11th Battalion and RM detachments in Turkey
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Turkey Period/ Conflict: 1900's Year: 1920 Date/s: 16 March 1920 Turkish Nationalists...
152 views0 comments
bottom of page