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Close Support Craft Juno Beach
Support Craft. The following would provide close support for 7 Brigade. LCG 831, 1007 and 1062. Landing Craft Gun each with two 4.7”...
Si Biggs
Jun 4, 20242 min read
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17,500 Royal Marines and 1 Dog!
A Shaggy Dog Story [Royal Marines and D Day by Captain the Reverend D A Farquharson-Roberts RM] Courtesy, the Crew of LCG(L) 1 I am...
Si Biggs
May 29, 20243 min read
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Formation of 3rd Raiding Squadron Royal Marines Hong Kong
In the autumn of 1979, 42 Commando completed an emergency tour in Hong Kong to help the British Forces stationed there in their role of...
Si Biggs
Apr 1, 20242 min read
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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 ...
Si Biggs
Nov 8, 20231 min read
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Hunting midget submarines and explosive motorboats
Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Schouwen Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: November 1944 LCS(M) of Force...
Si Biggs
Nov 4, 20231 min read
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Loss of 601st LCM Flotilla
21st July 1944 Normandy HM LCM, 601st Flotilla. Attempting to cross the Channel from the Normandy Beaches the flotilla of small Mark 1...
Si Biggs
Jul 21, 20234 min read
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D DAY Royal Marines
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 D Day was the largest...
Si Biggs
Jun 6, 20232 min read
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47 Commando - The Advance to Port-en-Bessin
D Day- Gold Beach Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 The first...
Si Biggs
Jun 6, 20237 min read
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D Day from an LCA
Combined Ops Signals Officer Charles Armstrong: (Continued from Embarking 47 Cdo at Southampton) We knew exactly where we were going, for...
Si Biggs
Jun 6, 202310 min read
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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...
Si Biggs
Jun 30, 20225 min read
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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...
Si Biggs
May 30, 20222 min read
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539 ASRM - A Genesis
539 ASRM (Assault Squadron Royal Marines) now 539 Raiding Squadron is a unique unit, for those of us that were privileged to have served...
Si Biggs
Mar 15, 202218 min read
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Cpl George Tandy DSM - Gold Beach - 'The Human Rudder'
Corporal George Ernest Tandy Ch. X 110723 was 19 years old when as a crewman on LCA 786 he swung down from the davits of Landing Ship...
Si Biggs
Mar 14, 20226 min read
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Matthew White, OC 1 Raiding Squadron Royal Marines
Matthew White 2016 In 1962, while still a blue beret Young Officer, and while “on hold” to do my Commando Course after an Appendix...
Si Biggs
Feb 2, 20225 min read
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I Was There! - I Saw the Royal Marines Go In at Walcheren
The War Illustrated, Volume 8, No. 194, Page 441, November 24, 1944. Westkapelle, keypoint in the Dutch island of Walcheren blocking the...
Si Biggs
Nov 2, 20213 min read
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Landing Craft Support Squadron - Operation Infatuate
1st - 8th November 1944 Operation Infatuate - The Battle of Walcheren. Support Squadron Eastern Flank left from Poole on 28th October...
Si Biggs
Nov 1, 20214 min read
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Operation Jubilee - Amphibious Raid on Dieppe - 19th August 1942
The Dieppe Raid, Operation Jubilee, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War. The raid...
Si Biggs
Aug 19, 20215 min read
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Royal Marines WWII Landing Craft Crews - Europe
Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: July 1943 Of the hundreds...
Si Biggs
Jul 10, 20216 min read
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Supporting the Rangers at Pointe Du Hoc
Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Pointe Du Hoc Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6th June 1944 East of Utah...
Si Biggs
Jul 2, 20213 min read
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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...
Si Biggs
Jun 8, 20211 min read
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