D Day Royal Marines Live Stream
Earlier this month in teh 80th Year of DDay I was delighted to be asked to conduct a live stream with Paul Woodage who runs the very...
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Si Biggs
Nov 1, 20232 min read
The Battle of Coronel - All hands Lost
1st November 1914 The Battle of Coronel was fought off the Chilean coast with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth with all hands....
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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
Mar 29, 20234 min read
Loss of Trinidad by own Torpedo
HMS Trinidad was a Royal Navy Fiji-class light cruiser. She was lost while serving in the Arctic on convoy duty after being damaged by...
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Si Biggs
Feb 27, 20231 min read
By Sea by Land
By Land and Sea (1941) This march was modeled on Alford's entry into a competition in 1934 for an official slow march for the Royal...
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Si Biggs
Feb 12, 20232 min read
His Majesty King George V Colonel in Chief of the Royal Marines
On 2nd January, HRH the Duke of York, now His Majesty King George V, was made Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Marine Forces, in 1901 the...
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Si Biggs
Jan 28, 20232 min read
HM Queen Victoria's Body Escorted from Osborne House - Royal Marines Guard
On the evening of 22nd January HM Queen Victoria died at Osborne, Isle of Wight, and for a time the world seemed to stand still; it was...
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Si Biggs
Aug 13, 20223 min read
Operation Dragoon - Royal Marines
Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Mediterranean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 15 August – 14 September 1944...
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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
May 4, 20222 min read
The Royal Marines Depot Deal
Unit/ Formation: Barracks/ Camps Location: Great Britian Period/ Conflict: 1800's Year: 1861 Date/s: 4th May 1861 The South barracks of...
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Si Biggs
Apr 25, 20221 min read
Soldiers of the Sea
The quick march 'Soldiers of the Sea' was composed by Vivian Dunn and written for HMS Bulwark, the Royal Navy's first Commando Carrier in...
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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
Feb 11, 20223 min read
A Life on the Ocean Wave
On 11th February 1927, Admiralty Fleet Order 626/27 officially recognised 'A Life On The Ocean Wave' as the Regimental March of Her...
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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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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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Si Biggs
Aug 12, 20212 min read
HMS Nigeria Torpedoed
Unit/ Formation: RM Band Service Location: Mediterranean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 12th August 1942 On 12 August...
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Si Biggs
Jun 10, 20211 min read
The Preobrazhensky March
10th June 1964, prompted by the Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten, the Royal Marines adopted the Preobrazhensky March in the...
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Si Biggs
Mar 5, 20211 min read
The Silver Drums - 1914-18 Memorial to the Royal Marines Band Service
The Silver Drums in memory of the 143 ranks of the Band Service who lost their lives in the Great War were paid for by voluntary...
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Si Biggs
Sep 22, 20201 min read
IRA Bombing RM Deal 22nd Sept 1989, 11 killed, 21 injured
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Band Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: The Troubles Year: 1989 Date/s: 22 September 1989 The Deal...
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