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Si Biggs
Jan 14, 20227 min read
45 RM Commando Operations around the Meuse Jan 1945
On the 14th January 1945 45 Commando under Command of Brigadier D Mills-Roberts DSO MC Irish Guards embarked at Tilbury Docks for...
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Si Biggs
Dec 13, 20217 min read
Battle of the River Plate - Royal Marines HMS Exeter B Turret - HMS Ajax X Turret
During the Battle of the River Plate 15 Marines lost their lives mostly manning turrets, HMS Exeter 10 Marines killed, HMS Ajax 5 Marines...
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Si Biggs
Dec 10, 20212 min read
Sinking of HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales
Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Malaysia Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 10 December 1941 Force Z went to sea...
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Si Biggs
Dec 7, 20213 min read
40 CDO Recce of Pelagosa
Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Pelagosa Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 5th December 1943 40 R.M. COMMANDO REPORT...
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Si Biggs
Dec 1, 20216 min read
HMS Barham - 126 Royal Marines Lost
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Mediterranean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 25th November 1941 1941 Loss of...
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Si Biggs
Nov 17, 20215 min read
Operation Stone Age - Loss of HMS Arethusa & 31 Royal Marines
17 November 1942 / 20 November 1942 On 17 November 1942 a convoy of 4 merchants (MW-13) left Alexandria for Malta. This convoy was...
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Si Biggs
Nov 9, 20212 min read
Capture of the Italian Armistice Commission - 30 Commando AU
Unit/ Formation: 30 Cdo Location: Cheragas Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 9th November 1942 The IAU ‘Special...
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Si Biggs
Nov 3, 20214 min read
Japanese Midget Submarine Crews hunted in Madagascar
The Battle of Madagascar (5 May – 6 November 1942) was a British campaign to capture the Vichy French-controlled island Madagascar during...
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Si Biggs
Nov 2, 20213 min read
I Was There! - I Saw the Royal Marines Go In at Walcheren
The War Illustrated, Volume 8, No. 194, Page 441, November 24, 1944. Westkapelle, keypoint in the Dutch island of Walcheren blocking the...
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Si Biggs
Nov 1, 20214 min read
Landing Craft Support Squadron - Operation Infatuate
1st - 8th November 1944 Operation Infatuate - The Battle of Walcheren. Support Squadron Eastern Flank left from Poole on 28th October...
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Si Biggs
Oct 29, 20212 min read
43 Commando - Landing at Dubrovnik
Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Yugoslavia Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 29th October 1944 Floydforce was the...
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Si Biggs
Oct 9, 20212 min read
Operation Mercerised - Attack on Sarandë and Surrender of Corfu
Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Albania Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 9 - 12 October 1944 No. 2 Commando...
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Si Biggs
Sep 29, 20213 min read
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 15, 20212 min read
Royal Marines Battle of Britain Pilots
Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Wick & Hatston Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: July - October 1940 56 Fleet...
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Si Biggs
Sep 13, 20214 min read
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 2, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20215 min read
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...
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Si Biggs
Aug 15, 20211 min read
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 12, 20212 min read
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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