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Sinking of HMS Formidable - 86 RMs lost
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: English Channel Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 1st January 1915 HMS Formidable was...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 31, 2022
- 1 min
Landing in Akabah
HMS Minerva log 31 December 1914 Akabah Lat 29.5, Long 35.0 5.00am: Course & speed as requisite approaching Akaba & anchoring at head of...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 1, 2022
- 4 min
Shore Party during the Greek Intervention
In August 1916, a pro-Allied group launched a coup against the monarchy in the Noemvriana, which the Allies sought to support. HMS...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 19, 2022
- 3 min
Lt Colonel Norman Ormsby Burge
When the First World War broke out, Burge volunteered for active service. He was put in command of one of the Portsmouth Battalion...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 15, 2022
- 4 min
Aloysius Stanbridge - three wars & three monarchs
Aloysius Stanbridge took part in three wars, the Boer War, 3rd China War (Boxer Rebellion and the Great War) and served under three...
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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 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 19, 2022
- 2 min
Churchills “Flying Column” Royal Marines
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 19 September 1914 On 2 August, the...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 21, 2022
- 2 min
British, US & French Marines Storm the 'Askold' in Murmansk
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Murmansk, Kola Bay Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 12 July 1918 In Murmansk...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 10, 2022
- 1 min
Lancashire Landing Cemetery
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Gallipoli peninsula Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: April 1915 - January 1916 84...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 3, 2022
- 3 min
Major Frederick William Lumsden RMA - VC
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 4 April 1917 Brigadier General...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 31, 2022
- 3 min
Royal Marines Stopping the Fins in Russia
HMS Glory was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia,...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 30, 2022
- 2 min
Captain James Maynard - 50 years of Service
Captain James Maynard This information and life time achievements were found by chance during a house sale and are an astonishing...
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Si Biggs
- Feb 2, 2022
- 2 min
Operations on the River Ancre
2nd February 1917 Operations on the River Ancre by 63rd (RN) Division The capture of Puisieux Trench. After a short spell out of the...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 13, 2022
- 3 min
Sinking of HMS Viknor
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: West Coast of Ireland Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 13th January 1915 RMS Atrato...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 13, 2021
- 6 min
Royal Marines Light Infantry - The Battle of the Ancre (Battles of the Somme 1916)
Unit/ Formation: RMLI Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1916 Date/s: 13th to 15th November 1916 (1RM: 127 killed; 2RM...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
The Unknown Warrior Story - The Bands of HM Royal Marines
The Unknown Warrior, performed in the Royal Albert Hall for the Mountbatten Festival of Music 2021 by the Massed Bands of Her Majesty's...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 6, 2021
- 2 min
Storming of the Ottoman Fort Fao - Al Faw Peninsula
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Iraq Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 6 November 1914 The Fao Landing occurred...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 11, 2021
- 3 min
The Trenches of Colincamps
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1916 Date/s: 12th October 1916 On the night of the...
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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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