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    Withdrawal from Aden
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 29, 2021
    • 3 min

    Withdrawal from Aden

    Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Aden Period/ Conflict: Aden Emergency (1964 - 67) Year: 1967 Date/s: 29th November 1967 Withdrawal...
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    Battle of Porto Bello
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 20, 2021
    • 1 min

    Battle of Porto Bello

    Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Panama Period/ Conflict: The War of Jenkins' Ear Year: 1739 Date/s: 20 November 1739 Vernon's...
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    Operation Stone Age - Loss of HMS Arethusa & 31 Royal Marines
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 17, 2021
    • 5 min

    Operation Stone Age - Loss of HMS Arethusa & 31 Royal Marines

    17 November 1942 / 20 November 1942 On 17 November 1942 a convoy of 4 merchants (MW-13) left Alexandria for Malta. This convoy was...
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    Bugler CE Timmins, 14, Youngest Marine Killed in WW1
    SImon Biggs
    • Nov 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    Bugler CE Timmins, 14, Youngest Marine Killed in WW1

    TIMMINS, CHARLES ERNEST PO/19601 Bugler Age:14 (Born 7th Dec. 1902) Royal Marine Light Infantry H.M.S "Cardiff.". Son of Private John...
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    Royal Marines Light Infantry - The Battle of the Ancre (Battles of the Somme 1916)
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 13, 2021
    • 6 min

    Royal Marines Light Infantry - The Battle of the Ancre (Battles of the Somme 1916)

    Unit/ Formation: RMLI Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1916 Date/s: 13th to 15th November 1916 (1RM: 127 killed; 2RM...
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    The Unknown Warrior Story - The Bands of HM Royal Marines
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 11, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Unknown Warrior Story - The Bands of HM Royal Marines

    The Unknown Warrior, performed in the Royal Albert Hall for the Mountbatten Festival of Music 2021 by the Massed Bands of Her Majesty's...
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    Capture of the Italian Armistice Commission - 30 Commando AU
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 9, 2021
    • 2 min

    Capture of the Italian Armistice Commission - 30 Commando AU

    Unit/ Formation: 30 Cdo Location: Cheragas Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 9th November 1942 The IAU ‘Special...
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    Storming of the Ottoman Fort Fao - Al Faw Peninsula
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 6, 2021
    • 2 min

    Storming of the Ottoman Fort Fao - Al Faw Peninsula

    Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Iraq Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 6 November 1914 The Fao Landing occurred...
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    General Sir Edward Nicolls KCB - The 'Fighting Nicolls'
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 5, 2021
    • 2 min

    General Sir Edward Nicolls KCB - The 'Fighting Nicolls'

    Unit/ Formation: RM People Location: Monte Christe Period/ Conflict: Napoleonic Wars Year: 1803 Date/s: Saturday 5th November 1803...
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    Japanese Midget Submarine Crews hunted in Madagascar
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 3, 2021
    • 4 min

    Japanese Midget Submarine Crews hunted in Madagascar

    The Battle of Madagascar (5 May – 6 November 1942) was a British campaign to capture the Vichy French-controlled island Madagascar during...
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    I Was There! - I Saw the Royal Marines Go In at Walcheren
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 2, 2021
    • 3 min

    I Was There! - I Saw the Royal Marines Go In at Walcheren

    The War Illustrated, Volume 8, No. 194, Page 441, November 24, 1944. Westkapelle, keypoint in the Dutch island of Walcheren blocking the...
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    Landing Craft Support Squadron - Operation Infatuate
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 1, 2021
    • 4 min

    Landing Craft Support Squadron - Operation Infatuate

    1st - 8th November 1944 Operation Infatuate - The Battle of Walcheren. Support Squadron Eastern Flank left from Poole on 28th October...
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    Operation Torch - A Royal Marines Story - Stanley Ogilvie
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 28, 2020
    • 5 min

    Operation Torch - A Royal Marines Story - Stanley Ogilvie

    Unit/ Formation: RM People Location: Algeria Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 8–16 November 1942 Our recruit training...
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    41 Commando - Chosin Reservoir Korea November/ December 1950 - Task Force Drysdale
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 27, 2020
    • 8 min

    41 Commando - Chosin Reservoir Korea November/ December 1950 - Task Force Drysdale

    Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Korea Period/ Conflict: Korean War Year: 1950 Date/s: 27 November 1950 I’m not done with them yet!!...
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    Joint Occupation of San Juan Island with the USMC
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 24, 2020
    • 2 min

    Joint Occupation of San Juan Island with the USMC

    Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: British Columbia Period/ Conflict: 1800's Year: 1856 Date/s: 24th November 1856 When Great...
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    Battle of the Windmill - Ontario
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 12, 2020
    • 2 min

    Battle of the Windmill - Ontario

    Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Ontario Period/ Conflict: Patriot War Year: 1838 Date/s: 12 November 1838 The Battle of the...
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    Cpl John Prettyjohn - First Royal Marine Victoria Cross - 2nd November 1854 –  Battle of Inkerman
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 2, 2020
    • 3 min

    Cpl John Prettyjohn - First Royal Marine Victoria Cross - 2nd November 1854 –  Battle of Inkerman

    John Prettyjohns VC (sometimes misspelled Prettyjohn) (11 June 1823 – 20 January 1887) was the first Royal Marine to win the Victoria...
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    The Battle of Graspan 1899
    Simon Biggs
    • Nov 25, 2019
    • 3 min

    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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    Taranto - first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history, Major Patch RM DSC
    Simon Biggs
    • Nov 12, 2019
    • 2 min

    Taranto - first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history, Major Patch RM DSC

    The Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11–12 November 1940 during the Second World War between British naval forces, under...
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    Major-General Patrick Kay: Royal Marine who became a pioneer of amphibious warfare
    Si Biggs
    • Nov 12, 2019
    • 5 min

    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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