Si BiggsMay 42 minThe Royal Marines Depot DealUnit/ Formation: Barracks/ Camps Location: Great Britian Period/ Conflict: 1800's Year: 1861 Date/s: 4th May 1861 The South barracks of...
Si BiggsApr 251 minSoldiers of the SeaThe quick march 'Soldiers of the Sea' was composed by Vivian Dunn and written for HMS Bulwark, the Royal Navy's first Commando Carrier in...
Si BiggsApr 111 minRM Band Service - SS Uganda - Falklands WarUnit/ Formation: RM Band Service Location: Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 12th May 1982 Royal...
Si BiggsFeb 113 minA Life on the Ocean WaveOn 11th February 1927, Admiralty Fleet Order 626/27 officially recognised 'A Life On The Ocean Wave' as the Regimental March of Her...
SImon BiggsNov 16, 20212 minBugler CE Timmins, 14, Youngest Marine Killed in WW1TIMMINS, CHARLES ERNEST PO/19601 Bugler Age:14 (Born 7th Dec. 1902) Royal Marine Light Infantry H.M.S "Cardiff.". Son of Private John...
Si BiggsNov 11, 20212 minThe Unknown Warrior Story - The Bands of HM Royal MarinesThe Unknown Warrior, performed in the Royal Albert Hall for the Mountbatten Festival of Music 2021 by the Massed Bands of Her Majesty's...
Si BiggsAug 11, 20212 minHMS Nigeria TorpedoedUnit/ Formation: RM Band Service Location: Mediterranean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 12th August 1942 On 12 August...
Si BiggsJun 9, 20211 minThe Preobrazhensky March10th June 1964, prompted by the Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten, the Royal Marines adopted the Preobrazhensky March in the...
Si BiggsMay 24, 20216 minSinking of HMS Hood - Loss of 162 Royal MarinesThe 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...
Si BiggsMar 5, 20211 minThe Silver Drums - 1914-18 Memorial to the Royal Marines Band ServiceThe 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...
Simon BiggsDec 26, 20192 minSinking of the Scharnhorst boxing day 1943On 20th December 1943 Convoy JW55B, comprising 19 merchant ships screened by 10 destroyers, was bound for Russia sailed on December 20th...
Simon BiggsDec 11, 20193 minMaurice Pink, Dunkirk, Hunt for the Bismark, Sinking of Repulse, Escape from Singapore and AnzioMaurice Pink, Royal Marines Bandsman, 13th May 1922 - 27th October 2019 He cheated death twice during the war, when his ships were sunk...
Simon BiggsSep 22, 20191 minDeal Bombing 22nd September 1989, 11 killed, 21 injured #RoyalMarinesThe Deal barracks bombing was an attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on the Royal Marine Depot, Deal, England. It took...