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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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Si Biggs
- 3 hours ago
- 7 min
47 Commando - The Advance to Port-en-Bessin
D Day- Gold Beach Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 The first...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 22
- 7 min
Operation Widgeon - 'Never in the history of human warfare have so many guns supported so few men'
Battle Prep The sun blazed down on the seemingly placid waters of the ever-present smoke-screen Lieutenant-General Ritchie, the Rhine on...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 21
- 1 min
3 Cdo Bde - CH46 Crash - Kuwait
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Kuwait Period/ Conflict: Iraq War (2003 - 2009) Year: 2003 Date/s: 21 March 2003 At around midnight...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 20
- 3 min
Royal Marines - Operation Telic
Starting on 20th March 2003, 40 and 42 Commando moved into Southern Iraq to secure the oil fields and prevent Saddam from setting them on...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 8
- 2 min
HMS Mount Stewart and the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment
This secret unit specialising in irregular warfare consisted of servicemen from the Navy, Royal Marines and Army under the command of...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 29
- 10 min
40 Cdo in Haifa - Palestine Mandate and the withdrawal of British troops - January to June, 1948
Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Haifa Period/ Conflict: Palestine Mandate Year: 1948 Date/s: 30th January - 30th June 1948 Royal...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 21
- 5 min
Crossing the Garigliano River - 40 CDO Royal Marines
Force 2. (A.P. and X troops). [40 CDO RM War Diary] The day of 17th January was spent in the lying up area until 2015 hrs when the area...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 21
- 2 min
Tank Attack - With a Pistol - Capt. Marshall MC (Bar)
Ty/Lt (/ty/Capt) Lionel Guy Bradford MARSHALL, M.C. R.M. (Bar to the M.C.) 22.1.44. Crossing of the Garigliano. Capt Marshall was in...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 2
- 9 min
Royal Marines Engineer Commando - Burma
Extract from ADM 202/30 re No 1 (RM) Engineer Commando 3 Troop RM Engineer Commando Report on Operations at AKYAB, MYEBON & KANGAW Period...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 31, 2022
- 2 min
The RM Engineer Commando
The Royal Marine Engineers were part the Royal Marine Division raised in 1940. They were originally designated 18 Battalion (Mobile) RM...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 2, 2022
- 2 min
Opening of Chinnampo - 41 Cdo Korea
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Chinnampo Period/ Conflict: Korean War Year: 1950 Date/s: November 1950 After several days of...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 1, 2022
- 3 min
Sgt Robert Greer LCG 1 - Walcheren
Sergeant Robert Greer (CH/X 3121) served as a Royal Marine during World War Two. Born on 12th December 1907 at 15 Dagmar Street, Belfast,...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 28, 2022
- 2 min
King Charles III - Captain General Royal Marines
His Majesty The King is announced as Captain General Royal Marines on the 358th Anniversary of the Corps His Majesty The King will serve...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 11, 2022
- 5 min
Re-occupation of Hong Kong
Unit/ Formation: 44 Cdo RM Location: Hong Kong Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 11 September 1945 Admiral Harcourt’s...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 15, 2022
- 1 min
41 Cdo Form up for Korea
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: Korean War Year: 1950 Date/s: 16th August 1950 41 Independent...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 25, 2022
- 21 min
48 Royal Marine Commando - July 1944 - Sallenelles
Occupation of Sallenelles X Troop, under the command of Capt Linnell, led the commandos into the area and found Sallenelles, as expected,...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 23, 2022
- 3 min
The Last Man Standing, the story of Dennis Donovan, 48 Royal Marine Commando Juno Beach
The Story of Dennis Donovan, the last man standing, 48 Royal Marine Commando. A Royal Marines History Podcast Dennis was born on the 3rd...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 13, 2022
- 2 min
Crossing the Helmand - Loss of Marine Dale Gostick
Unit/ Formation: RM ASG Location: Musa Qala Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan Year: 2008 Date/s: 25th May 2008. While returning to...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 7, 2022
- 6 min
46 CDO Recce Patrol - & Milking Cows!
Unit/ Formation: 46 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 8 July 1944 8th July 1944 Place:...
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