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Unit/ Formation : 46 Cdo RM Location : Wesel Period/ Conflict : World War II Year : 1945 Date/s : Friday, March 23, 1945 Brigadier Mills-Roberts summarised his plan: 'I decided to send 46 Commando over first in the Buffaloes and go with them with a small Brigade Headquarters. No. 46 had to capture the bank of the river and 6 Commando – which would be next ashore from the storm boats – had to sweep up the river bank and enter Wesel. The other two commandos would be brought across the river by...

Before the Sudan was finally abandoned, the R.M.L.I. fought two more fierce battles against the Dervishes near Suakin. On 20th March they stormed the enemy hills of Hasheen with the Berkshire Regiment in what was described as, 'making it look like a race between the two Corps to reach some hillocks on the right of the ridge'. 1885 The Suakin Expedition. The Battle of Hasheen, Sudan. 2nd Scots Guards in action. [Thomas Strong Seccombe. Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection .  Brown Digital...

Unit/ Formation : 42 Cdo RM Location : Arabian Gulf Period/ Conflict : Year : 2019 Date/s : March 2019 Royal Marines and Navy Boarding teams from the Royal Navy warship HMS Dragon has sailed into the record books after her seventh drugs bust in the Middle East – bringing her total deployment haul to £145m. Since deploying to the Middle East in September last year, HMS Dragon has racked up a record haul of drugs from criminals they have hunted down across the open seas – 15,246kg of hash,...