Lieutenant-Colonel 'Pug' Davis - founding father of the Special Boat Service, and won a DSC
Lieutenant-Colonel "Pug" Davis (1923 - 2011 aged 87), was the founding father of the Special Boat Service, and won a DSC for a daring...
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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 Biggs
- Jul 18, 2018
- 6 min
The LCA (Landing Craft Assault) - Norway to Aden #LandingCraft #RoyalMarines
Throughout the Second World War, LCAs were used for landing Allied forces in almost every Commando operation, major and minor, in the...
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Simon 'Peters' Biggs
- Feb 5, 2018
- 2 min
Heroism of four Chaplains on U.S.A.T. Dorchester
The U boat war was now entering a critical phase. Just as more and more men and munitions were leaving America and Canada to join the...
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Simon 'Peters' Biggs
- Feb 1, 2018
- 2 min
The Forgotten Army - One Million Men Under Arms in Burma
Burma Star Association The Circumstances of the War in Burma The war in the Far East started in December 1941, simultaneously with the...
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Simon 'Peters' Biggs
- Jan 24, 2018
- 1 min
The Royal Marines a Geo - History 1664 - Present
The Royal Marines A Geo History 1664 to Present This page is a work in progress as I try to code it, please check back regularly. In the...
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Si Biggs
- Jan 23, 2018
- 3 min
47 Cdo RM - Battle of Port-en-Bessin 7-8 June 1944 - "It is doubtful whether, in their long, di
The Battle of Port-en-Bessin also known as Operation Auberytook place from 7–8 June 1944, at a small fishing harbour west of Arromanches...
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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 27, 2017
- 2 min
Sea Borne Escape from Crete in a Damaged Landing Craft
Colour Sergeant Charlie Bowden, who died aged 94 2011, was a Royal Marines gunner who survived being shot at by both the enemy and his...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 13, 2017
- 7 min
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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Si Biggs
- Dec 13, 2017
- 1 min
HMS Ajax - Ajax Canada @townofajax My Grandad and The Battle of the River Plate
Ajax, Ontario, Canada was named after HMS Ajax after the Battle of the River Plate and the streets are named after every member of the...
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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
- Nov 9, 2017
- 1 min
Dambuster - Sq Ldr George Leonard "Johnny" Johnson MBE
The last surviving British member of the Dambusters raid has been presented with an MBE after a campaign for him to be honoured. Sq Ldr...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 2, 2017
- 3 min
Yvonne Burney "Odette" the youngest female SOE agent passes away at 95
Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Baseden MBE; Legion of Honour; the Resistance Medal and the Croix de Guerre avec Palme, (20 January 1922 – 28...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 23, 2017
- 3 min
1,000 British Guns open up at El Alamein
The day of waiting and discomfort was over. The British Eighth Army – including Australian, New Zealand, South African, Indian, Polish...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 12, 2017
- 2 min
Great Escapes - Le Chemin de la Liberte (The French Freedom Trail) @MontyHalls #WW2
Le Chemin de la Liberte (The French Freedom Trail) After the German offensive in May 1940 and the division of France into two parts - an...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 8, 2017
- 2 min
The battle for the Red October factory canteen
In Stalingrad Soviet forces were obstinately refusing to budge from their defended positions on the ever diminishing sliver of land they...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 3, 2017
- 2 min
Troopship Queen Mary cuts HMS Curacoa in half 337 Men lost #militaryhistory #OTD
The RMS Queen Mary was used as a troopship throughout World War II and usually crossed the Atlantic without an escort, relying on her...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 27, 2017
- 2 min
Great Escapes - The Sulmona Trail @MontyHalls #WW2
Escape from Italy On the 03 September 1943, the Italian Government led by Badoglio (who had replaced Mussolini in July), signed an...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 21, 2017
- 2 min
Leo Gradwell DSC RNVR against orders, led three merchant ships from the disaster of Convoy PQ 17 int
Leo Gradwell DSC was a British barrister, a magistrate and a Second World War Royal Navy volunteer, who in July 1942 against orders, led...
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