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IRA Bombing - Deal - Memorial Band Stand
Unit/ Formation: RM Band Service Location: Deal Period/ Conflict: Year: 1989 Date/s: 22 September 1989 A memorial bandstand was...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 17
- 2 min
First Royal Marines Killed in Action in WW2
In 1939 within days of the outbreak of war two Royal Marines had died ashore; Sergeant (Pens) Ebenezer Luff, PO/ 15068, was killed in a...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 16
- 2 min
Action on the Vaga - Archangel River Expedition
In February, 1919, it was decided that the situation on the Archangel front necessitated the provision of a strong Naval flotilla, more...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 9
- 2 min
Operation Barras - Hostage Rescue Sierra Leone
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Sierra Leone Period/ Conflict: Sierra Leone Civil War Year: 2000 Date/s: 10 September 2000 In September...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 8
- 2 min
11th RM Battalion - Operation Agreement - Raid on Tobruk
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Libya Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 13–15 September 1942 The Battalion’s...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 4
- 2 min
Loss of HMS Pathfinder 1914 - First Torpedo Fired in Wartime from a Submarine
5th September 1914 1914 HMS Pathfinder, light cruiser, torpedoed and sunk by U.21 in North Sea a month after the declaration of war with...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 3
- 2 min
47 Cdo - Training for Operation Infatuate
Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 27 September 1944 After relief by 7...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 24, 2022
- 2 min
Marines at the Capture of Manilla - 1762
Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Philippines Period/ Conflict: Seven Years' War Year: 1762 Date/s: 24th September 1762 The...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 24, 2022
- 3 min
Destruction under gunfire of Pegasus in Zanzibar Harbour
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Zanzibar Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 20th September 1914 H.M.S. Pegasus was...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 23, 2022
- 2 min
Operation Menace - Battle of Dakar
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Dakar Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 23–25 September 1940 Operation Menace,...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 22, 2022
- 3 min
Loss of the 'Live Bait' Squadron
Tuesday, 22 September 1914 SINKING OF CRUISERS ABOUKIR, HOGUE, CRESSY OF DUTCH COAST by U.9 They were known as the “Live Bait” Squadron,...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 16, 2022
- 5 min
Operation Anglo - SBS Raid on Italian Airfield
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Kalathos, Rhodes Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 31 August–18 September 1942 (The...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 13, 2022
- 5 min
First British Naval bombing of WW2
Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: North Atlantic Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1939 Date/s: 14th September 1939 Ark Royal Log...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 11, 2022
- 1 min
Poundforce - Kunsun Diversonary Raid - Operation Chromite - Inchon
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Korea Period/ Conflict: Korean War Year: 1950 Date/s: 12th September 1950 POUNDFORCE comprised...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 11, 2022
- 5 min
Re-occupation of Hong Kong
Unit/ Formation: 44 Cdo RM Location: Hong Kong Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 11 September 1945 Admiral Harcourt’s...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 3, 2022
- 2 min
Evacuation of Refugees in Vietnam
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Haiphong Period/ Conflict: Year: 1954 Date/s: 4th September 1954 As a part of Operation Pasage...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 14, 2022
- 3 min
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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Si Biggs
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
Port T - Secret Naval Base
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Addu Atoll Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: September 1941 Early in the Second...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 22, 2021
- 2 min
First British Air-raid of WW1
Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Düsseldorf Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 22 September 1914 Flight Lieutenant...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 20, 2021
- 4 min
Opposed Landing and Capture of Cork
Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Ireland Period/ Conflict: Williamite War in Ireland Year: 1690 Date/s: 21 September 1690 1st...
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