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Unit/ Formation: 46 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 8 July 1944 8th July 1944 Place:...
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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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Jul 1, 20227 min read
Woson Forward Operating Base
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Korea Period/ Conflict: Korean War Year: 1951 Date/s: 1st July 1951 Following the success of raids...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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May 17, 20225 min read
Crash in Malta - 40 Cdo Royal Marines
17th May 1953 During Active Service deployment to the Canal Zone the plane carrying S Troop of 40 Commando RM crashed on take-off from...
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May 12, 20222 min read
Oil Safe - Protecting Britains Oil from Terrorist Attack
The threat of terrorist both home grown and international against the North Sea Oil Instillations was brought to the attention of the...
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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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May 3, 20224 min read
Liberation of Rangoon - Operation Dracula
Unit/ Formation: 48 Cdo RM Location: Burma Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 2nd May 1945 The invasion of Rangoon was...
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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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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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Mar 30, 20226 min read
Belgrade War Cemetery, Serbia
Belgrade War Cemetery was created to receive the remains of British and Commonwealth casualties brought in from more than sixty small...
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Mar 22, 20229 min read
Operation Endowment - 43 Commando Royal Marines
Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Yugoslavia Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 22 March 1944 On the 22nd – 23rd March...
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Mar 12, 20223 min read
47 Commando - Final Operations in Holland
Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: The Netherlands Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 12 March - 7 April 1945 On the 12...
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Feb 15, 20222 min read
Raid on Deception Island
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Deception Island, Antarctica Period/ Conflict: Year: 1953 Date/s: 15th February 1953 HMS Snipe...
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