The Admirals Regiment - The Marines First Action - attack on the Dutch Smyrna fleet
Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Cadiz Period/ Conflict: Second Anglo Dutch War Year: 1664 Date/s: December 1664 The...
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Si Biggs
Dec 4, 20212 min read
Cyprus Emergency - Operation Foxhunter
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Cyprus Period/ Conflict: Cyprus Emergency Year: 1956 Date/s: 10th – 12th December 1956 In the early...
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Si Biggs
Dec 2, 20212 min read
Winston Churchills Flying Instructor Killed
Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Royal Naval Air Station Eastchurch Period/ Conflict: 1900's Year: 1913 Date/s: 2nd December 1913...
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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
Dec 31, 20202 min read
'Soldier an' Sailor Too'
By Rudyard Kipling Kipling wrote this poem in 1896, during Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901), when nationalism was at a peak in England....
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Si Biggs
Dec 30, 20201 min read
1664 - 2020 Royal Marines Around the World in December
Come and see 37 pins for December and read about Royal Marines in action in this month through out our History; 1664: The Admirals...
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Si Biggs
Dec 26, 20202 min read
Sinking of the Scharnhorst - Boxing Day 1943
Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: North Cape Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 26th December 1943 Battle of the North...
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Si Biggs
Dec 25, 20201 min read
RM Gun Crew Killed Christmas Day 1940 in Surface Action with Admiral Hipper
On 25 December 1940, whilst part of the escort to convoy WS-5A, a troop convoy to the Middle East, Berwick was in a surface engagement...
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Si Biggs
Dec 23, 20202 min read
The Dubai Incident
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Dubai Period/ Conflict: 20th Century Year: 1910 Date/s: 24th December 1910 The East Indian...
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Si Biggs
Dec 16, 20202 min read
Operation Red Dagger
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Nad-e-Ali Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan (2001-) Year: 2008 Date/s: 7 - 25th December 2008...
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Si Biggs
Dec 8, 20201 min read
Policing Sevastopol - Royal Australian Navy
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Sevastopol Period/ Conflict: Russian Intervention Year: 1918 Date/s: 8th December 1918 On 8...
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Si Biggs
Dec 4, 20205 min read
DayForce - Bougainville Campaign
Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Bougainville Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: Monday 18th December 1944 A...
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Si Biggs
Dec 2, 20204 min read
Taking of Lagos - War on the Slave Trade
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: West Africa Period/ Conflict: War on the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Year: 1851 Date/s: 26th -...
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Si Biggs
Aug 12, 20203 min read
Plymouth Argyll Royal Marines - Fall of Singapore
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Singapore Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: December 1941/ February 1942 On December 10th...
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Simon Biggs
Dec 31, 20191 min read
Royal Marines in Action since December 1664! Happy New Year Royal! #RoyalMarines #RoyalMarinesHistor
Royal Marines in action since December 1664! Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Cadiz Period/ Conflict: Second Anglo Dutch...
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Simon Biggs
Dec 31, 20193 min read
Loss of T Company - HMS Fidelity
Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Azores Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 30th December 1942 HMS Fidelity a...
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Simon Biggs
Dec 31, 20192 min read
Royal Marines in Action around Aqaba
HMS Minerva was an Eclipse-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s. During December 1914 Minerva was stationed...
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Simon Biggs
Dec 30, 20194 min read
HMS NATAL Sunk by Internal Explosion - 63 Royal Marines Lost
HMS Natal was a Warrior class Cruiser of 13,550 tons with a complement of 704 officers and men. She was launched at Barrow-in-Furness on...
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SImon Biggs
Dec 30, 20192 min read
63rd (Royal Naval) Division - Battle of Welsh Ridge
Battle of Welsh Ridge Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Villers Plouich Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s:...
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Simon Biggs
Dec 25, 20191 min read
RM Gun Crew Killed Christmas Day 1940 in Surface Action with Admiral Hipper
On 25 December 1940, whilst part of the escort to convoy WS-5A, a troop convoy to the Middle East, Berwick was in a surface engagement...
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