Royal Marines Camel Corps - Battle of Abu Klea
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Sudan Period/ Conflict: Sudanese War Year: 1885 Date/s: 17th January 1885 Two of the...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 16, 2020
- 2 min
Assault on the island of Kapelsche Veer
Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: The Netherlands Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 13th January 1945 Operation Horse...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 12, 2020
- 8 min
Royal Marines & Royal Navy capture Salif in the Yemen 1917
Capture of Salif Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Salif Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 12th January...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 8, 2020
- 2 min
The Battle of Blaauwberg - Cape Town 1806
The Battle of Blaauwberg also known as the Battle of Cape Town fought near Cape Town on Wednesday 8 January 1806, was a small but...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 7, 2020
- 1 min
Royal Marines Museum - £5 Million Mission!
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
- Jan 7, 2020
- 2 min
HMS Doris - Royal Marines in Intelligence Gathering and Demolition Raids in Syria
Commissioned in 1897, one of the nine-ship Eclipse class, Doris was a 5600-ton, 350-foot second-class protected cruiser, designed for...
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Simon Biggs
- Dec 31, 2019
- 2 min
Royal Marines in Action around Aqaba
HMS Minerva was an Eclipse-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s. During December 1914 Minerva was stationed...
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Simon Biggs
- Dec 30, 2019
- 4 min
HMS NATAL Sunk by Internal Explosion - 63 Royal Marines Lost
HMS Natal was a Warrior class Cruiser of 13,550 tons with a complement of 704 officers and men. She was launched at Barrow-in-Furness on...
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Simon Biggs
- Dec 26, 2019
- 2 min
Sinking of the Scharnhorst boxing day 1943
On 20th December 1943 Convoy JW55B, comprising 19 merchant ships screened by 10 destroyers, was bound for Russia sailed on December 20th...
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Simon Biggs
- Dec 25, 2019
- 1 min
RM Gun Crew Killed Christmas Day 1940 in Surface Action with Admiral Hipper
On 25 December 1940, whilst part of the escort to convoy WS-5A, a troop convoy to the Middle East, Berwick was in a surface engagement...
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Simon Biggs
- Dec 18, 2019
- 3 min
HMS Neptune mined 1 survivor from 764
18th December 1941 HMS Neptune a Leander-class light cruiser with HM Cruisers AURORA, PENELOPE, HM Destroyers: KANDAHAR, LANCE, LIVELY...
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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 #RoyalMarines
'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 11, 2019
- 3 min
Maurice Pink, Dunkirk, Hunt for the Bismark, Sinking of Repulse, Escape from Singapore and Anzio
Maurice Pink, Royal Marines Bandsman, 13th May 1922 - 27th October 2019 He cheated death twice during the war, when his ships were sunk...
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Simon Biggs
- Dec 10, 2019
- 5 min
All hands on deck. Prepare to abandon ship.” ....“God be with you."
Sinking of HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales Royal Marines on HMS Repulse (http://www.nicholasbest.co.uk/tag/royal-marines/) Force Z...
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Simon Biggs
- Dec 9, 2019
- 2 min
The Battle of the Falklands 8th December 1914
The Royal Navy’s spectacular retribution on 8th December 1914 in the First World War, for the sinking of Admiral Cradock’s two ships, HMS...
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Simon Biggs
- Dec 4, 2019
- 2 min
24 Royal Marine Cadets Killed - Gillingham/ Chatham Bus Tragedy
Marching at the side of the road in full uniform were 52 members of the Chatham Royal Marine Cadet Corps, aged between 9 and 13 a bus...
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Simon Biggs
- Nov 12, 2019
- 2 min
Taranto - first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history, Major Patch RM DSC
The Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11–12 November 1940 during the Second World War between British naval forces, under...
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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 5, 2019
- 3 min
Corporal John Prettyjohn the First Royal Marine Victoria Cross - 2nd November 1854 – Battle of Inke
John Prettyjohns VC (sometimes misspelled Prettyjohn) (11 June 1823 – 20 January 1887) was the first Royal Marine to win the Victoria...
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