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    The Royal Marines Depot Deal
    Si Biggs
    • May 4
    • 2 min

    The Royal Marines Depot Deal

    Unit/ Formation: Barracks/ Camps Location: Great Britian Period/ Conflict: 1800's Year: 1861 Date/s: 4th May 1861 The South barracks of...
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    Soldiers of the Sea
    Si Biggs
    • Apr 25
    • 1 min

    Soldiers of the Sea

    The quick march 'Soldiers of the Sea' was composed by Vivian Dunn and written for HMS Bulwark, the Royal Navy's first Commando Carrier in...
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    RM Band Service - SS Uganda - Falklands War
    Si Biggs
    • Apr 11
    • 1 min

    RM Band Service - SS Uganda - Falklands War

    Unit/ Formation: RM Band Service Location: Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 12th May 1982 Royal...
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    A Life on the Ocean Wave
    Si Biggs
    • Feb 11
    • 3 min

    A Life on the Ocean Wave

    On 11th February 1927, Admiralty Fleet Order 626/27 officially recognised 'A Life On The Ocean Wave' as the Regimental March of Her...
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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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    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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    HMS Nigeria Torpedoed
    Si Biggs
    • Aug 11, 2021
    • 2 min

    HMS Nigeria Torpedoed

    Unit/ Formation: RM Band Service Location: Mediterranean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 12th August 1942 On 12 August...
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    The Preobrazhensky March
    Si Biggs
    • Jun 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Preobrazhensky March

    10th June 1964, prompted by the Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten, the Royal Marines adopted the Preobrazhensky March in the...
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    Sinking of HMS Hood - Loss of 162 Royal Marines
    Si Biggs
    • May 24, 2021
    • 6 min

    Sinking of HMS Hood - Loss of 162 Royal Marines

    The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a naval engagement on 24 May 1941 in the Second World War, between ships of the Royal Navy and the...
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    The Silver Drums - 1914-18 Memorial to the Royal Marines Band Service
    Si Biggs
    • Mar 5, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Silver Drums - 1914-18 Memorial to the Royal Marines Band Service

    The Silver Drums in memory of the 143 ranks of the Band Service who lost their lives in the Great War were paid for by voluntary...
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    Sinking of the Scharnhorst boxing day 1943
    Simon Biggs
    • Dec 26, 2019
    • 2 min

    Sinking of the Scharnhorst boxing day 1943

    On 20th December 1943 Convoy JW55B, comprising 19 merchant ships screened by 10 destroyers, was bound for Russia sailed on December 20th...
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    Maurice Pink, Dunkirk, Hunt for the Bismark, Sinking of Repulse, Escape from Singapore and Anzio
    Simon Biggs
    • Dec 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    Maurice Pink, Dunkirk, Hunt for the Bismark, Sinking of Repulse, Escape from Singapore and Anzio

    Maurice Pink, Royal Marines Bandsman, 13th May 1922 - 27th October 2019 He cheated death twice during the war, when his ships were sunk...
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    Deal Bombing 22nd September 1989, 11 killed, 21 injured #RoyalMarines
    Simon Biggs
    • Sep 22, 2019
    • 1 min

    Deal Bombing 22nd September 1989, 11 killed, 21 injured #RoyalMarines

    The Deal barracks bombing was an attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on the Royal Marine Depot, Deal, England. It took...
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