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    In My Own Words - Podcast
    Si Biggs
    • 7 hours ago
    • 1 min

    In My Own Words - Podcast

    In My Own Words - In Our Own Words In the first section of this podcast In My Own Words Tony Sicklemore tells of his experiences with 42...
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    Crash in Malta - 40 Cdo Royal Marines
    Si Biggs
    • 7 days ago
    • 5 min

    Crash in Malta - 40 Cdo Royal Marines

    17th May 1953 During Active Service deployment to the Canal Zone the plane carrying S Troop of 40 Commando RM crashed on take-off from...
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    Oil Safe - Protecting Britains Oil from Terrorist Attack
    Si Biggs
    • May 12
    • 2 min

    Oil Safe - Protecting Britains Oil from Terrorist Attack

    The threat of terrorist both home grown and international against the North Sea Oil Instillations was brought to the attention of the...
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    SBS - The first air-to-ship storming of a hostile vessel in military history
    Si Biggs
    • May 9
    • 4 min

    SBS - The first air-to-ship storming of a hostile vessel in military history

    Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 9 May 1982 Her Majesty's...
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    Liberation of Rangoon - Operation Dracula
    Si Biggs
    • May 3
    • 4 min

    Liberation of Rangoon - Operation Dracula

    Unit/ Formation: 48 Cdo RM Location: Burma Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 2nd May 1945 The invasion of Rangoon was...
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    In Our Own Words - 42 Commando in the Falklands War
    Si Biggs
    • Apr 25
    • 1 min

    In Our Own Words - 42 Commando in the Falklands War

    Thirty eight former members of Lima Company Group, 42 Commando Royal Marines as well as four others having connections with Lima Company,...
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    Belgrade War Cemetery, Serbia
    Si Biggs
    • Mar 30
    • 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...
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    Operation Endowment - 43 Commando Royal Marines
    Si Biggs
    • Mar 23
    • 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...
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    47 Commando - Final Operations in Holland
    Si Biggs
    • Mar 12
    • 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...
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    Raid on Deception Island
    Si Biggs
    • Feb 15
    • 2 min

    Raid on Deception Island

    Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Deception Island, Antarctica Period/ Conflict: Year: 1953 Date/s: 15th February 1953 HMS Snipe...
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    L/Cpl Matt Croucher GC
    Si Biggs
    • Feb 9
    • 6 min

    L/Cpl Matt Croucher GC

    Matthew Croucher, GC,VR (born 14 December 1983) is a former Royal Marine and a recipient of the George Cross, the highest British and...
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    Matthew White, OC 1 Raiding Squadron Royal Marines
    Si Biggs
    • Feb 2
    • 5 min

    Matthew White, OC 1 Raiding Squadron Royal Marines

    Matthew White 2016 In 1962, while still a blue beret Young Officer, and while “on hold” to do my Commando Course after an Appendix...
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    Operation Maude - Cutting Iraq's Communications Cable
    Si Biggs
    • Jan 23
    • 1 min

    Operation Maude - Cutting Iraq's Communications Cable

    Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: S of Baghdad Period/ Conflict: Operation Granby (Gulf War 1) Year: 1991 Date/s: 23 January 1991. Led by Lt...
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    Operation Shingle - Anzio Landings
    Si Biggs
    • Jan 22
    • 2 min

    Operation Shingle - Anzio Landings

    Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 22 January 1944 The Battle of Anzio was a...
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    Colonel David Mitchell 2 SBS - Borneo
    Si Biggs
    • Jan 14
    • 3 min

    Colonel David Mitchell 2 SBS - Borneo

    Colonel David Mitchell Royal Marines commanded No 2 Special Boat Section in the Far East, and pioneered new technique of clandestine...
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    45 RM Commando Operations around the Meuse Jan 1945
    Si Biggs
    • Jan 14
    • 7 min

    45 RM Commando Operations around the Meuse Jan 1945

    On the 14th January 1945 45 Commando under Command of Brigadier D Mills-Roberts DSO MC Irish Guards embarked at Tilbury Docks for...
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    Mike Samuelson a Royal Marines Officer; 40 decades of War and Peace (Keeping) Pt1
    Si Biggs
    • Dec 31, 2021
    • 1 min

    Mike Samuelson a Royal Marines Officer; 40 decades of War and Peace (Keeping) Pt1

    Please listen to my latest podcast, and interview with Mike Samuelson. Mike Samuelson a Royal Marines Officer: Lympstone to N Iraq via...
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    40 Cdo in Sabah 1964
    Si Biggs
    • Dec 8, 2021
    • 1 min

    40 Cdo in Sabah 1964

    Images of 40 Commando Royal Marines in Sabah, North East Borneo July 1964 to December 1964, 40 Cdo's 4th of 6 tours of Borneo between...
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    Cyprus Emergency - Operation Foxhunter
    Si Biggs
    • Dec 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    Cyprus Emergency - Operation Foxhunter

    Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Cyprus Period/ Conflict: Cyprus Emergency Year: 1956 Date/s: 10th – 12th December 1956 In the early...
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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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