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Scaling the Walls at Chin-Kiang-Fu
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: China Period/ Conflict: Opium Wars Year: 1842 Date/s: 21 July 1842 3rd brigade was assisted by a...
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Jul 22, 20201 min read
HMS Doris Boer War Field Gun Memorial
Boer War memorial. Erected on 27th February 1904; by Harry Hems, inscribed with the words 'Ready-Aye-Ready'. Erected as a memorial to the...
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Feb 27, 20203 min read
20 Mile Row to Capture the Curieux, Martinique
The French brig sloop ‘Curieux’ was fitted out at Martinique in order to attack British interests, as she was a threat to British West...
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Feb 4, 20201 min read
Submarine Canoe Insertion against the IRA
Operation Aweless Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Northern Ireland Period/ Conflict: Northern Ireland Conflict Year: 1975 Date/s:...
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Jan 16, 20201 min read
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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Jan 12, 20208 min read
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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Jan 8, 20202 min read
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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Jan 7, 20202 min read
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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Dec 31, 20192 min read
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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Dec 30, 20194 min read
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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Dec 25, 20191 min read
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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Dec 18, 20193 min read
Battle of the River Plate 13th December 1939
The Battle of the River Plate took place on December 13th 1939. The battle in the South Atlantic was the first major naval battle of...
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Dec 13, 20199 min read
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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Dec 11, 20193 min read
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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Dec 10, 20195 min read
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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Dec 9, 20192 min read
The First Shots Fired Against the Japanese - HMS Petrel - Occupied Shanghai 1941
The British serviceman who first fired on Japanese forces during World War Two. Mail Online (12 October 2009) Jim Mariner was on board...
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Dec 7, 20194 min read
The Battle of Graspan 1899
The Battle of Graspan during the Boer War. On the 25th November 1899 the Royal Marines were involved in the battle of Graspan (also known...
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Nov 25, 20193 min read
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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Nov 12, 20192 min read
Flight Lieutenant Charles Herbert Collet DSO - RM Airmen
Flight Lieutenant Charles Herbert Collet DSO (4 February 1888 – 19 August 1915) who led the first British air raid of the war was a...
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Sep 23, 20193 min read
Annexation of Rockall
18th September 1955 Rockall was annexed by the British Crown when Lieutenant-Commander Desmond Scott RN, Sergeant Brian Peel RM, Corporal...
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Sep 18, 20192 min read
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