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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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May 9, 20224 min read


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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May 3, 20224 min read


SBS sail South on HMS Conqueror
In response to the invasion the British dispatched a Taskforce to recapture them under the codename Operation CORPORATE. Visibly the...

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Apr 26, 20222 min read


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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Apr 25, 20221 min read


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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Mar 30, 20226 min read


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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Mar 22, 20229 min read


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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Mar 12, 20223 min read


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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Feb 15, 20222 min read


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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Feb 9, 20226 min read


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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Feb 2, 20225 min read


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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Jan 23, 20221 min read


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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Jan 22, 20222 min read


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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Jan 14, 20223 min read


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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Jan 14, 20227 min read


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...

Si Biggs
Dec 31, 20211 min read


40 Cdo in Sabah 1964 - Tawau Assault Group
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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Dec 9, 20211 min read


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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Dec 4, 20212 min read


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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Nov 29, 20213 min read


I Was There! - I Saw the Royal Marines Go In at Walcheren
The War Illustrated, Volume 8, No. 194, Page 441, November 24, 1944. Westkapelle, keypoint in the Dutch island of Walcheren blocking the...

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Nov 2, 20213 min read


43 Commando - Landing at Dubrovnik
Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Yugoslavia Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 29th October 1944 Floydforce was the...

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Oct 29, 20212 min read
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