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
Aug 11, 20211 min read
Landings at Jounieh with 1,500 Turks and Marines
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Lebanon Period/ Conflict: Egyptian–Ottoman War Year: 1840 Date/s: 11 August 1840 In June...
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Si Biggs
Aug 8, 20211 min read
Holmes's Bonfire
Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Netherlands Period/ Conflict: Second Anglo Dutch War Year: 1666 Date/s: Sunday 8th August...
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Si Biggs
Aug 1, 20211 min read
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
Aug 1, 20212 min read
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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Si Biggs
Aug 31, 202010 min read
A Brief History of 44 Royal Marine Commando at The Battle of Hill 170
Kindly written for RoyalMarinesHistory.com by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson www.ohwhataladylikewar.com @LMBD1418 Following the Battles of Kohima...
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Si Biggs
Aug 30, 20201 min read
Liberation of Toutainville
Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 26 August 1944 On 24 August Y Troop...
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Si Biggs
Aug 27, 20202 min read
Murder of Lord Mountbattten
Unit/ Formation: RM People Location: Mullaghmore Period/ Conflict: The Troubles Year: 1979 Date/s: 27 August 1979 Murder of the Colonel...
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Si Biggs
Aug 24, 20201 min read
Battle of Bladensburg, Burning of Washington, USMC Commandant's House
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: North America Period/ Conflict: War of 1812 Year: 1814 Date/s: 24 August 1814 A British force of...
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Si Biggs
Aug 13, 20204 min read
The Battle for Hong Kong and the Lisbon Maru Massacre - Royal Marines Roll of Honour
The Battle for Hong Kong Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Hong Kong Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 8–25...
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Si Biggs
Aug 6, 20202 min read
Portland Royal Naval Cemetery - Remembering Royal Marines who gave their lives
2 Royal Marines, killed in France during WW2 and more recently Afghanistan, lay at Portland Royal Naval Cemetery; WRIGHT, James Robert...
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Si Biggs
Jul 24, 20202 min read
Capture of Gibraltar 24th July t0 1st August 1704
On July 24, the allied fleet arrived outside Gibraltar. In all, Rooke commanded 16 English ships under Byng and six Dutch ships under...
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Simon Biggs
Aug 27, 20194 min read
Murder of Lord Mountbatten, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Marines
Unit/ Formation: RM People Location: Mullaghmore Period/ Conflict: The Troubles Year: 1979 Date/s: 27 August 1979 Murder of the Colonel...
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Simon Biggs
Aug 26, 20192 min read
The Atlantic Memorial Campaign
HRH The Princess Royal becomes Patron of Battle of the Atlantic Memorial campaign The charity behind the campaign to build the UK’s...
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Simon 'Peters' Biggs
Aug 15, 20194 min read
Mounted Marines and the Invasion of Java
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Java Period/ Conflict: Napoleonic Wars Year: 1811 Date/s: 4th August 1811` The invasion of Java...
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Simon Biggs
Aug 7, 20192 min read
RM Fighter Ace - Battle of Britain Pilot - Ronald Cuthbert Hay
Ronald Cuthbert Hay, DSO, DSC & Bar (4 October 1916 – 22 November 2001) was a British naval aviator and the only Royal Marine fighter...
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Simon Biggs
Aug 7, 20192 min read
Sinking of the Submarine Iride and Human Torpedoes - Captain Oliver Patch RM
22nd August 1940 Captain Oliver Patch RM flew in a flight of 3 swordfish to sink 4 Italian ships with 3 torpedoes in Bomba Bay. In July...
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Simon Biggs
Aug 7, 20194 min read
Remembering Lieutenant Colonel Mark “Foggy” Phillips MBE
Lieutenant Colonel Mark “Foggy” Phillips MBE, soldier, security consultant. Born: 24 May 1961, Gloucestershire. Died: 12 August 2017,...
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Si Biggs
Aug 6, 20172 min read
Formation of No. 46 (Royal Marine) Commando formed up in Dorchester August 1943
Formed at Dorchester, West Dorset, in August 1943 mainly from men of 9th RM Bn; 46 Commando RM had a brief but important role in the...
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