Ascension Island Staging for Operation Corporate
Unit/ Formation: 3 Cdo Brigade RM Location: Ascension Island Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 6 April 1982 Naval...
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Si Biggs
Sep 2, 20234 min read
Cpl Jeremy Smith RM Memorial Plaque
The Cpl Jeremy Smith RM (Decd.) Memorial Plaque Story by Tony Sickelmore In Aug 2022, Dale Mills (former Marine, 42 Cdo 1982) sent me the...
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Si Biggs
Jul 1, 20225 min read
Operation Corporate Roll of Honour
Operation Corporate Roll of Honour A total of 255 British servicemen and 3 Falkland Island civilians were killed during the Falklands...
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Si Biggs
Jun 30, 20222 min read
RM Band - Repatriation of POWs to Argentina
Canberra now acting returned to San Carlos for a third time to pick up 5,500 POWs of the 11,845 Argentine POWs and sailed for Puerto...
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Si Biggs
Jun 30, 20225 min read
The Battle for the Falklands - 40 Years On (Pt 2; June 1982)
3 Commando Brigade forward base established at Teal Inlet 1st June 1982 In preparation for major engagements, 42, 45 Commandos and 3 Para...
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Si Biggs
Jun 29, 20223 min read
Hunting the Exocet
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Europe and Gibraltar Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: June 1982 The French AM 39...
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Si Biggs
Jun 20, 20221 min read
Operation KeyHole
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Thule Island Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 19 - 20 June 1982 After the...
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Si Biggs
Jun 14, 20222 min read
Scouts HELARM - Bunker Busting
Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 14 June 1982 During the...
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Si Biggs
Jun 13, 20224 min read
Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge, & Sapper Hill
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Mount Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 13–14...
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Si Biggs
May 30, 20222 min read
Mine Sweeping from LCVPs - Teal Inlet
Without sufficient helicopter availability following the Exocet attack on and loss of the MV Atlantic Conveyor, 3 Commando Brigade had...
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Si Biggs
May 30, 20223 min read
Mount Kent is captured by SAS and 42 Cdo RM
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 30 May 1982 The job of...
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Si Biggs
May 23, 20221 min read
In My Own Words - Podcast
In My Own Words - In Our Own Words In the first section of this podcast In My Own Words Tony Sicklemore tells of his experiences with 42...
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Si Biggs
May 9, 20224 min read
SBS - The first air-to-ship storming of a hostile vessel in military history
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 9 May 1982 Her Majesty's...
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Si Biggs
Apr 26, 20222 min read
SBS sail South on HMS Conqueror
In response to the invasion the British dispatched a Taskforce to recapture them under the codename Operation CORPORATE. Visibly the...
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Si Biggs
Apr 25, 20221 min read
In Our Own Words - 42 Commando in the Falklands War
Thirty eight former members of Lima Company Group, 42 Commando Royal Marines as well as four others having connections with Lima Company,...
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Si Biggs
Apr 11, 20221 min read
RM Band Service - SS Uganda - Falklands War
Unit/ Formation: RM Band Service Location: Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 12th May 1982 Royal...
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Si Biggs
Dec 31, 20211 min read
Mike Samuelson a Royal Marines Officer; 40 decades of War and Peace (Keeping) Pt1
Please listen to my latest podcast, and interview with Mike Samuelson. Mike Samuelson a Royal Marines Officer: Lympstone to N Iraq via...
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Si Biggs
Jun 11, 20213 min read
Battle for the Falklands - The Battle for Mount Harriet - 42 Cdo RM - 11/12 June 1982
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: The Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 11 - 12 June 1982...
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Si Biggs
Jun 8, 20211 min read
The Loss of Royal Marines Landing Craft - LCU F4 - Falklands 8th June 1982
Image F4 conducting a work up exercise in English Bay Ascension Island With the British Army’s 5 Brigade separated from their vital...
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Si Biggs
Jun 2, 20212 min read
Sgt Kiwi Hunt SBS Memorial
HUNT, Ian Nicholas Rank: Sergeant Regiment/Corps: Royal Marines Number: P030085W Born: Tuesday, December 1, 1953 Died : Wednesday, June...
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