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Sinking of HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales

Si Biggs

Dec 10, 20212 min read

Sinking of HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales

Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Malaysia Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 10 December 1941 Force Z went to sea...

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Winston Churchills Flying Instructor Killed

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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Bugler CE Timmins, 14, Youngest Marine Killed in WW1

SImon Biggs

Nov 16, 20212 min read

Bugler CE Timmins, 14, Youngest Marine Killed in WW1

TIMMINS, CHARLES ERNEST PO/19601 Bugler Age:14 (Born 7th Dec. 1902) Royal Marine Light Infantry H.M.S "Cardiff.". Son of Private John...

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The Unknown Warrior Story - The Bands of HM Royal Marines

Si Biggs

Nov 11, 20213 min read

The Unknown Warrior Story - The Bands of HM Royal Marines

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Westminster Abbey Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1920 Date/s: 11 November 1920 In 1920, as part...

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VJ Day - Victory over Japan - Royal Marines in SE Asia & the Pacific

Si Biggs

Aug 15, 20211 min read

VJ Day - Victory over Japan - Royal Marines in SE Asia & the Pacific

On August 6 and 9, 1945, the Allies dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. On August 9, the Soviet Union declared...

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Royal Marines Association

Jul 13, 20211 min read

Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Royal Marines Charity News | 13.07.21 A message from Commandant General Royal Marines, Lieutenant General Rob Magowan CB CBE “You will be...

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Steph Stephens SBS - Conspicuous Gallantry Cross

Si Biggs

Jul 1, 20213 min read

Steph Stephens SBS - Conspicuous Gallantry Cross

Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Haji Wakil village, Bahram Chah Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) Year: 2010 Date/s: 1st...

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The Loss of Royal Marines Landing Craft - LCU F4 - Falklands 8th June 1982

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

May 22, 20212 min read

Loss of 90 RM on HMS Gloucester

HMS Gloucester was one of the second batch of three Town-classlight cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the late 1930s. Transferred...

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Si Biggs

Apr 29, 20212 min read

Trincomalee War Cemetery

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Trincomalee Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1948 Date/s: April 1948 Trincomalee is a seaport on...

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Loss of HM Submarine Affray & 4 Man SBS team

Si Biggs

Apr 16, 20213 min read

Loss of HM Submarine Affray & 4 Man SBS team

Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: 1950's Year: 1951 Date/s: 16 April 1951 HMS Affray a British Amphion-class...

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Simon Biggs

Feb 27, 20203 min read

HMS Doris Boer War Field Gun Memorial

Boer War memorial. Erected on 27th February 1904; by Harry Hems, inscribed with the words 'Ready-Aye-Ready'. Erected as a memorial to the...

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Simon Biggs

Feb 9, 20201 min read

Tragedy on Operations in Cyprus

Thursday, February 9, 1956, Quartermaster Sergeant Alfred Wheeler and Mne. Benet Blakeway, HQ 3 Commando Brigade, died during operations...

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L/Cpl HE Harden VC (RAMC) - attached to 45 (Royal Marine) Commando - 23rd January 1945 - Netherlands

Simon Biggs

Jan 23, 20202 min read

L/Cpl HE Harden VC (RAMC) - attached to 45 (Royal Marine) Commando - 23rd January 1945 - Netherlands

Henry Eric Harden VC (23 February 1912 – 23 January 1945), 32 years old. Harden was a lance corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps...

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The Battle of Blaauwberg - Cape Town 1806

Simon Biggs

Jan 8, 20202 min read

The Battle of Blaauwberg - Cape Town 1806

The Battle of Blaauwberg also known as the Battle of Cape Town fought near Cape Town on Wednesday 8 January 1806, was a small but...

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HMS NATAL Sunk by Internal Explosion - 63 Royal Marines Lost

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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RM Gun Crew Killed Christmas Day 1940 in Surface Action with Admiral Hipper

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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Simon Biggs

Dec 18, 20193 min read

HMS Neptune mined 1 survivor from 764

18th December 1941 HMS Neptune a Leander-class light cruiser with HM Cruisers AURORA, PENELOPE, HM Destroyers: KANDAHAR, LANCE, LIVELY...

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Maurice Pink, Dunkirk, Hunt for the Bismark, Sinking of Repulse, Escape from Singapore and Anzio

Simon Biggs

Dec 11, 20193 min read

Maurice Pink, Dunkirk, Hunt for the Bismark, Sinking of Repulse, Escape from Singapore and Anzio

Maurice Pink, Royal Marines Bandsman, 13th May 1922 - 27th October 2019 He cheated death twice during the war, when his ships were sunk...

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