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40 CDO - Capture of Navy House - Musketeer
Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Port Said Period/ Conflict: Suez Crisis Year: 1956 Date/s: 6th November 1956 At dawn on 6 November...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 20
- 2 min
45 CDO - The world's first heli-borne assault - Musketeer
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Egypt Period/ Conflict: Suez Crisis Year: 1956 Date/s: 5 November 1956 Operation Musketeer (French:...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 15
- 4 min
Attack on Milos Freya Radar Station
Haddock Troop, was a contingent of Royal Marines on 'special assignment', led by Captain Arnold Bell it consisted of two sergeants, four...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 7
- 2 min
LVT 'Conquerer' Destroyed by Booby Trap in Serooskerke
Unit/ Formation: 48 Cdo RM Location: Serooskerke Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 8 November 1944 A patrol from 48RM...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 7
- 2 min
41 CDO Mortared in the Dunes
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Walcheren Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 7 November 1944 Two Nebelwerfer north of...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 5
- 2 min
41CDO RM - Attack on W18 - Walcheren
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Walcheren Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 5 November 1944 W18 was situated in the...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 2
- 2 min
47 CDO RM - Attack on Battery W11 Walcheren
Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: Dishoek, Walcheren Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 2 - 3 November 1944 The...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 31
- 2 min
41 CDO RM - Landings at Westkapelle - Operation Infatuate
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Westkapelle Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 1 November 1944 The three RM...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 31
- 2 min
48 CDO - Operation Infatuate - Walcheren
Unit/ Formation: 48 Cdo RM Location: Westkapelle Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 1 November 1944 On 1 November No 48...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 3
- 2 min
47 Cdo - Training for Operation Infatuate
Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 27 September 1944 After relief by 7...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 16
- 2 min
Lake Commachio - Kangaroo Charge by C Troop
Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Lake Commachio Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 02 April 1945 It was shortly before...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 12
- 3 min
Formation of 3 Brigade Air Squadron (3 BAS)
Location: Sembawang, Singapore Period/ Conflict: 1960's Year: 1968 Date/s: 12th August 1968 Almost co-inciding with the Commando Carriers...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 10
- 2 min
Commando Training Center Royal Marines - Lympstone
Unit/ Formation: Barracks/ Camps Location: Great Britian Period/ Conflict: 1900's Year: 1960 Date/s: 1960 The training of commandos after...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 5
- 6 min
Trevor Philpott - Junior Marine to King’s Badge to Lt Col OBE, RM, FRSA
Trevor Philpott - died unexpectedly but peacefully at home in South Shields on Saturday 8th July 2023. Trevor grew up in the Tavistock...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 31
- 3 min
James Louis Moulton
James Louis Moulton was born on 3 June 1906, the son of J. D. Moulton. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Barnet, and...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 29
- 3 min
Lt Colonel Drysdale, Royal Marines, Commanding Officer 41 Independent Commando
Colonel Douglas Burns Drysdale was born in Hampstead, a suburb of London, on 2 October 1916. He spent the majority of his youth in...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 26
- 1 min
70th Anniversary of the end of the Korean War - 27 July 2023
The Korean War began on June 25,1950 when the Northern Korean People’s Army, backed by the Soviet Union, launched a military operation to...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6
- 4 min
45 Cdo Royal Marines - D Day
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 On the afternoon of the 5th...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6
- 2 min
Linking up with the Paras on the Orne Bridgehead
News was now received that the Brigade was to come under command of the Sixth Airborne Division, and that the 5th Parachute Brigade had...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6
- 2 min
D DAY Royal Marines
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 D Day was the largest...
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