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SBS Hostage Rescue - Stephen Farrell
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Kunduz Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan (2001-) Year: 2009 Date/s: 9 September 2009 The Special Boat...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 11, 2020
- 3 min
Royal Marines in Borneo - 1962 - 1966
Indonesian Confrontation Between 1963 and 1966, British Commonwealth forces fought against Indonesia in a conflict that focused on the...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 26, 2020
- 2 min
SBS - Operation Ilois - Ambushed by the Taliban
Operation Ilois Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Sangin Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan (2001-) Year: 2006 Date/s: 27 June 2006 A...
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Si Biggs
- May 26, 2020
- 2 min
NGS in Fox Bay - SBS and 148 Bty
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Knob Island, Fox Bay Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 26 May 1982 SBS Operations -...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 16, 2020
- 1 min
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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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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SImon Biggs
- Oct 23, 2019
- 7 min
SAS Raid on Cortley Ridge - Supported by SBS and 1st Raiding Squadron
Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: The Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 13 June 1982...
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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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Simon Biggs
- Jul 30, 2018
- 2 min
The Royal Marines Projecting Power since 1664 - a Geo History
The Royal Marines - A Geo History 1664 to Present The Globe & Laurel March/April 2018 by Simon Biggs Even before I was a young Marine in...
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Simon 'Peters' Biggs
- Apr 1, 2018
- 2 min
Remembering Major Richard Clifford - Marine officer who parachuted into the sea with the SBS
Major Richard Clifford of the Royal Marines, May 19 1946 - November 15 2015 (69), was a Special Boats Service officer who parachuted into...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 18, 2018
- 3 min
Major Anders Lassen VC - SBS - Lake Commachio 8 - 9th April 1945
On the night of 8th – 9th April 1945 eighteen men from the Special Boat Service set out across Lake Comacchio to attack heavily defended...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 7, 2017
- 3 min
Operation Frankton is launched from HMS Tuna
At 7.17 pm on December 7, 1942, His Majesty’s Submarine Tuna surfaced off the coast of Occupied France near the mouth of the River...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 12, 2016
- 2 min
The Cockelshell Heroes - Operation Frankton survivors reach their target
Of the six two man canoes that had been brought to the French coast by HMS Tuna on the 7th December, only five had been launched because...
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