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Si Biggs
Nov 264 min read
Turret Explosion on HMS Devonshire and Marine AE Streams - Albert Medal
Eight days after arriving on station, Devonshire and the rest of the Mediterranean Fleet sailed for manoeuvres in the Aegean Sea, off the...
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Si Biggs
Nov 114 min read
Loss of Old Contemptble - Arthur Townroe RMLI - 10 Nov 1918
A TOWNROE KILLED. ONE DAY BEFORE ARMISTICE WAS SIGNED. ONE OF THE OLD "CONTEMPTIBLES." It is with deep regret and sympathy we have to...
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Si Biggs
Aug 197 min read
Loss of HMS Hawke and 78 Royal Marines Light Infantry
H.M.S. Hawke was an old armoured cruiser operating as part of the 10th Cruiser Squadron assigned to the Northern Patrol. Launched at...
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Si Biggs
Apr 101 min read
Trincomalee War Cemetery
Unit/ Fomration: Memorial Location: Trincomalee Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1948 Date/s: April 1948 Trincomalee is a seaport on...
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Si Biggs
Mar 112 min read
SS Bayano 1915 - 20 RMs lost
11th March 1915 SS Bayano, armed merchant cruiser, torpedoed and sunk by U.27 in North Channel. HMS Bayano, built in 1913, was originally...
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Si Biggs
Feb 273 min read
HMS Exeter Battle of the Java Sea and later loss
HMS Exteter spent most of 1941 on convoy escort duties before she was transferred to the Far East after the start of the Pacific War in...
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Si Biggs
Feb 261 min read
Cpl Reginald Campbell - KIA Sarawak
1964 Corporal Reginald CHAPPELL: Service Number RM 15686 of 42 Commando RM. He was killed in action during the Confrontation with...
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Si Biggs
Feb 162 min read
Evacuation from Singapore
16th February 1942 Heavy casualties in Singapore listed as HMS Sultan (Shore Base) during the evacuation from Singapore including 20...
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Si Biggs
Feb 91 min read
Tragedy on Operations in the Cyprus Mountains
Remembering: WHEELER, Alfred Quartermaster Sergeant Unit/Base: '3 Commando Brigade RM' Regiment/Corps: Royal Marines Service number: PO/X...
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Si Biggs
Nov 8, 20231 min read
Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Bergen-op-Zoom Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 1 - 8th November 1944 ...
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Si Biggs
Sep 22, 20231 min read
IRA Bombing - Deal - Memorial Band Stand
Unit/ Formation: RM Band Service Location: Deal Period/ Conflict: Year: 1989 Date/s: 22 September 1989 A memorial bandstand was...
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Si Biggs
Sep 17, 20232 min read
First Royal Marines Killed in Action in WW2
In 1939 within days of the outbreak of war two Royal Marines had died ashore; Sergeant (Pens) Ebenezer Luff, PO/ 15068, was killed in a...
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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 27, 20232 min read
70th Anniversary of the end of the Korean War - 27 July 2023
The Korean War began on June 25,1950 when the Northern Korean People’s Army, backed by the Soviet Union, launched a military operation to...
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Si Biggs
May 27, 20236 min read
The Destruction of HMS Princess Irene
HMS Princess Irene was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and converted to an auxiliary minelayer. On 27 May 1915, she exploded and sank off...
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Si Biggs
May 17, 20232 min read
Bombing of HMS Royal Arthur
Unit/ Formation: Barracks/ Camps Location: Skegness Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 21 February 1942 HMS Royal Arthur...
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Si Biggs
May 14, 20231 min read
Murder of 2 Royal Marines - East Ferry Ireland
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Ireland Period/ Conflict: Anglo-Irish War Year: 1921 Date/s: 14 May 1921 On Saturday 14th May...
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Si Biggs
Apr 14, 20231 min read
1000'th Royal Marine killed in WW1
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Light Infantry Location: United Kingdom Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 14th April 1915...
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Si Biggs
Mar 22, 20231 min read
Ambush in Belfast - Marine James Macklin Killed
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Belfast Period/ Conflict: Northern Ireland Conflict Year: 1974 Date/s: 22 March 1974 Marine James...
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Si Biggs
Mar 21, 20231 min read
3 Cdo Bde - CH46 Crash - Kuwait
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Kuwait Period/ Conflict: Iraq War (2003 - 2009) Year: 2003 Date/s: 21 March 2003 At around midnight...
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