L/Cpl Matt Croucher GC
Matthew Croucher, GC,VR (born 14 December 1983) is a former Royal Marine and a recipient of the George Cross, the highest British and...
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Si Biggs
Feb 2, 20225 min read
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...
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Si Biggs
Jan 23, 20221 min read
Operation Maude - Cutting Iraq's Communications Cable
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: S of Baghdad Period/ Conflict: Operation Granby (Gulf War 1) Year: 1991 Date/s: 23 January 1991. Led by Lt...
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Si Biggs
Jan 22, 20222 min read
Operation Shingle - Anzio Landings
Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 22 January 1944 The Battle of Anzio was a...
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Si Biggs
Jan 14, 20223 min read
Colonel David Mitchell 2 SBS - Borneo
Colonel David Mitchell Royal Marines commanded No 2 Special Boat Section in the Far East, and pioneered new technique of clandestine...
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Si Biggs
Jan 14, 20227 min read
45 RM Commando Operations around the Meuse Jan 1945
On the 14th January 1945 45 Commando under Command of Brigadier D Mills-Roberts DSO MC Irish Guards embarked at Tilbury Docks for...
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Si Biggs
Dec 31, 20211 min read
Mike Samuelson a Royal Marines Officer; 40 decades of War and Peace (Keeping) Pt1
Please listen to my latest podcast, and interview with Mike Samuelson. Mike Samuelson a Royal Marines Officer: Lympstone to N Iraq via...
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Si Biggs
Dec 9, 20211 min read
40 Cdo in Sabah 1964 - Tawau Assault Group
Images of 40 Commando Royal Marines in Sabah, North East Borneo July 1964 to December 1964, 40 Cdo's 4th of 6 tours of Borneo between...
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Si Biggs
Dec 4, 20212 min read
Cyprus Emergency - Operation Foxhunter
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Cyprus Period/ Conflict: Cyprus Emergency Year: 1956 Date/s: 10th – 12th December 1956 In the early...
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Si Biggs
Nov 29, 20213 min read
Withdrawal from Aden
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Aden Period/ Conflict: Aden Emergency (1964 - 67) Year: 1967 Date/s: 29th November 1967 Withdrawal...
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Si Biggs
Nov 2, 20213 min read
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...
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Si Biggs
Oct 29, 20212 min read
43 Commando - Landing at Dubrovnik
Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Yugoslavia Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 29th October 1944 Floydforce was the...
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Si Biggs
Oct 9, 20212 min read
Operation Mercerised - Attack on Sarandë and Surrender of Corfu
Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Albania Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 9 - 12 October 1944 No. 2 Commando...
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Si Biggs
Oct 1, 20213 min read
Amphibious Raid from USS Perch
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Korea Period/ Conflict: Korean War Year: 1950 Date/s: 1 October 1950 As the American submarine USS...
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Si Biggs
Sep 17, 20211 min read
Poundforce land at Inchon
Operation Chromite - Inchon Unit/ Formation: Roya Marines Location: Korea Period/ Conflict: Korean War Year: 1950 Date/s: 17th...
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Si Biggs
Sep 13, 20214 min read
Operation Sunbeam A - Limpet Attack in the Agean
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Portolago Bay Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 18th June 1944 Leros island’s Portolago...
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Si Biggs
Sep 2, 20212 min read
47 CDO RM - Cutting off the Germans at Fecamp
Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 2 September 1944 On the morning of 31 Aug...
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Si Biggs
Aug 19, 20215 min read
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...
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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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Si Biggs
Aug 1, 20211 min read
Formation of 43 Cdo Royal Marines
nit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 1st August 1943 43 Commando was formed on 1st...
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