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Operation Sunbeam A - Limpet Attack in the Agean
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Portolago Bay Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 18th June 1944 Leros island’s Portolago...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 1, 2021
- 2 min
47 CDO RM - Cutting off the Germans at Fecamp
Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 2 September 1944 On the morning of 31 Aug...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 20, 2021
- 2 min
Silent Warriors - The Special Boat Service in WW2
From award-winning historian Saul David, the first authorised history of the SBS. Britain's SBS-or Special Boat Service - was the world's...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 19, 2021
- 4 min
Operation Jubilee - Amphibious Raid on Dieppe - 19th August 1942
The Dieppe Raid, Operation Jubilee, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War. The raid took...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 15, 2021
- 1 min
VJ Day - Victory over Japan - Royal Marines in SE Asia & the Pacific
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the Allies dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. On August 9, the Soviet Union declared...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 11, 2021
- 2 min
HMS Nigeria Torpedoed
Unit/ Formation: RM Band Service Location: Mediterranean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 12th August 1942 On 12 August...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 31, 2021
- 1 min
Formation of 43 Cdo Royal Marines
nit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 1st August 1943 43 Commando was formed on 1st...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 31, 2021
- 2 min
45 Cdo Royal Marines Formed in Burley Hampshire
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Great Britian Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 1st August 1943 45 RM Commando was...
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Royal Marines Association
- Jul 14, 2021
- 7 min
Jim Wren Royal Marines at 100
Article from the Royal Marines Charity; Visiting Jim Wren, 100-year-old veteran The Royal Marines Association were lucky enough to secure...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 10, 2021
- 6 min
Royal Marines WWII Landing Craft Crews - Europe
Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: July 1943 Of the hundreds...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 7, 2021
- 1 min
Normandy - A successful Recce Patrol
Unit/ Formation: 46 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 8 July 1944 Task To answer the following...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 7, 2021
- 3 min
Major Reginald Ingleton Executed by Beheading - 7 July 1945 - Operation Rimau
Operation Rimau was an attack on Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour, carried out by an Allied commando unit Z Special Unit, during...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 1, 2021
- 3 min
Supporting the Rangers at Pointe Du Hoc
Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Pointe Du Hoc Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6th June 1944 East of Utah...
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Si Biggs
- May 23, 2021
- 8 min
The Sacrifice Army - Royal Marines in the Rearguard Action At Calais
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 24th May 1940 Calais – Friday 24 to...
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Si Biggs
- May 21, 2021
- 2 min
Loss of 90 RM on HMS Gloucester
HMS Gloucester was one of the second batch of three Town-classlight cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the late 1930s. Transferred...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 28, 2021
- 2 min
Trincomalee War Cemetery
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Trincomalee Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1948 Date/s: April 1948 Trincomalee is a seaport on...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 22, 2021
- 3 min
SBS - Raid on Santorini Axis Camp
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Santorini Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 22nd April 1944 Just after midnight on April...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 22, 2021
- 1 min
Operation Bograt - 48RM Cdo
Unit/ Formation: 48 Cdo RM Location: Beisbosch Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: April 1945 Major 'Pat' Wall 48RM Cdo and...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 20, 2021
- 6 min
Charles Henry Bowden BEM - Corps Drum Major
By Colin E Bowden Charles Henry Bowden or as he was better known - 'Charlie' Bowden, not that the rank and file would have addressed him...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 1, 2021
- 3 min
Corporal Thomas Peck Hunter RM - Victoria Cross
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 9 April 1945 Hunter was 21 years old,...
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