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From the Royal Marines Museum Website: The Royal Marines are without a museum, their story hidden from view. After being deemed no longer...
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Simon Biggs
- Dec 31, 2019
- 3 min
Loss of T Company - HMS Fidelity
Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Azores Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 30th December 1942 HMS Fidelity a...
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Simon Biggs
- Dec 16, 2019
- 6 min
The Battle of the Bulge - Royal Marines in the Ardennes Offensive
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 12, 2019
- 3 min
42 Commando Raid on Limbang - Hostage Rescue - 12th December 1962
'I assess the most important factor in the success of the operation was first class leadership by junior NCOs. Their section battle craft...
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Simon Biggs
- Dec 7, 2019
- 4 min
Operation Frankton - The Cockleshell Heroes
Combined Operations commander Admiral Louis Mountbatten regarded it as “the most courageous and imaginative of all the raids ever carried...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 12, 2019
- 5 min
Major-General Patrick Kay: Royal Marine who became a pioneer of amphibious warfare
Patrick Richard Kay, Royal Marine officer: born Blakeney, Norfolk 1 August 1921; MBE 1945, CB 1972; married 1944, Muriel Austen Smith...
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Simon Biggs
- Nov 7, 2019
- 3 min
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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Simon Biggs
- Nov 6, 2019
- 2 min
1 ASRM becomes 47 Commando (Raiding Group) Royal Marines
The Royal Marines' amphibious warfare expert group has been renamed. 1 Assault Group Royal Marines now under the command of 3 Commando...
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SImon Biggs
- Nov 1, 2019
- 7 min
Operation Infatuate - The Battle of Walcheren
1st - 8th November 1944 Operation Infatuate - The Battle of Walcheren. The operation was part of the wider Battle of the Scheldt and...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 28, 2019
- 2 min
Happy Birthday #Royal Marines Projecting Global Power Since 1664
Formed in the reign of King Charles II on October 28, 1664 as the Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot (or Admiral’s...
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Simon 'Peters' Biggs
- Aug 19, 2019
- 4 min
Operation Jubilee - Amphibious Raid on Dieppe - 19th August 1942
The Dieppe Raid, Operation Jubilee, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War. The raid took...
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Simon Biggs
- Aug 7, 2019
- 4 min
Remembering Lieutenant Colonel Mark “Foggy” Phillips MBE
Lieutenant Colonel Mark “Foggy” Phillips MBE, soldier, security consultant. Born: 24 May 1961, Gloucestershire. Died: 12 August 2017,...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 6, 2019
- 1 min
The Battle of Belleisle - 7 June 1761
The Marines played a major role in the capture of this island, from the first amphibious landing, and through all subsequent fighting....
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Simon Biggs
- Jul 4, 2019
- 4 min
Amphibious Lessons Learned - Operation Husky 10 July 1943
Lessons Learned (Operation Husky) The beach organisation was better than 'Torch' but there were still problems caused, mainly by human...
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Simon Biggs
- Jul 1, 2019
- 5 min
40 Cdo RM Dieppe 1942 - Major-General 'Titch' Houghton (1912 - 2011)
Major-General 'Titch' Houghton, who died January 2011 aged 98, was second-in-command of Royal Marine 40 Commando during the Second World...
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Simon 'Peters' Biggs
- Jun 12, 2019
- 3 min
Battle for the Falklands - The Battle for Mount Harriet - 42 Cdo RM - 11/12 June 1982
Following K Coy's helicopter flight forward on to Mount Kent over the night of Sunday 30th May to join D Sqn SAS, the rest of 42 Cdo...
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Simon 'Peters' Biggs
- Jun 12, 2019
- 4 min
Battle for the Falklands - The Battle for Two Sisters - 45 Cdo RM - 11/12 June 1982
45 Cdo's yomp from San Carlos Water via Teal Inlet ended to the west of Mount Kent on Friday 4th, and the next week was spent patrolling...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 8, 2019
- 1 min
The Loss of Royal Marines Landing Craft - LCU F4 - Falklands 8th June 1982
Image F4 conducting a work up excercise in English Bay Ascension Island With the British Army’s 5 Brigade separated from their vital...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 7, 2019
- 3 min
47 Cdo RM - Battle of Port-en-Bessin 7-8 June 1944 - "It is doubtful whether, in their long, di
The Battle of Port-en-Bessin also known as Operation Auberytook place from 7–8 June 1944, at a small fishing harbour west of Arromanches...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6, 2019
- 2 min
Operation Overlord - D Day 6th June 1944
The Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi...
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