41 Commando - Chosin Reservoir Korea November/ December 1950 - Task Force Drysdale
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Korea Period/ Conflict: Korean War Year: 1950 Date/s: 27 November 1950 I’m not done with them yet!!...
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Si Biggs
Oct 22, 20201 min read
Ambush in Cyprus - Loss of Marine Alasdair MacDOUGALL
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Amiados Period/ Conflict: Cyprus Emergency Year: 1958 Date/s: 22nd October 1958 Marine Alasdair...
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Si Biggs
Oct 13, 20204 min read
Formation of 40 Cdo RM
Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 12 October 1942 Formed at Deal...
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Si Biggs
Oct 11, 20201 min read
41 CDO - North Korea - Raid on East Coast Railway
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Korea Period/ Conflict: Korean War Year: 1950 Date/s: October 1950 125 men and five officers of C &...
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Si Biggs
Oct 3, 20203 min read
Operation Devon - Raid on Termoli
Operation Devon - Raid on Termoli Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 3 October...
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Si Biggs
Sep 15, 20205 min read
Major General Sir John Jeremy Moore
Major General Sir John Jeremy Moore, KCB,OBE,MC & Bar (5 July 1928 – 15 September 2007) was a British senior Royal Marine officer who...
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Si Biggs
Sep 15, 20202 min read
Battle of '41 Commando Hill' & 'Pimple Hill'
No. 2 Commando, had taken part in the capture of Sicily and then landed at Salerno with other British troops. He and his men fought for...
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Si Biggs
Sep 9, 20204 min read
Salerno Landings - Operation Avalanche
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 9 September 1943 The Italian front opens at...
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Si Biggs
Aug 31, 202010 min read
A Brief History of 44 Royal Marine Commando at The Battle of Hill 170
Kindly written for RoyalMarinesHistory.com by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson www.ohwhataladylikewar.com @LMBD1418 Following the Battles of Kohima...
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Si Biggs
Aug 30, 20201 min read
Liberation of Toutainville
Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 26 August 1944 On 24 August Y Troop...
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Si Biggs
Jul 11, 20205 min read
Canberra returns from the Falklands
Unit/ Formation: 3 Cdo Brigade RM Location: Southampton Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 11th July 1982 At the...
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Si Biggs
Jul 11, 20203 min read
Royal Marines in Borneo - 1962 - 1966
Indonesian Confrontation Between 1963 and 1966, British Commonwealth forces fought against Indonesia in a conflict that focused on the...
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Si Biggs
Jul 10, 20202 min read
Operation Husky - Invasion of Sicily
Operation Husky, the Invasion of Sicily, was the first major Allied assault on German occupied Europe. Churchill described Sicily and...
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Si Biggs
Jun 27, 20202 min read
SBS - Operation Ilois - Ambushed by the Taliban
Operation Ilois Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Sangin Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan (2001-) Year: 2006 Date/s: 27 June 2006 A...
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Si Biggs
Jun 26, 20202 min read
Palestine Mandate and the withdrawal of British troops
Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Palastine Period/ Conflict: Palestine Mandate Year: 1948 Date/s: 30th June 1948 40 Commando was sent...
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Si Biggs
Jun 18, 20201 min read
47 Cdo RM - Sallenelles - Orne
Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 18th June 1944 The Commando had now begun a...
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Si Biggs
Jun 15, 20201 min read
40 Cdo Accept the Surrender at Port Howard and Mine Clearance
In 1982, following the Argentinean invasion of the Falkland Islands, 40 Commando deployed on Operation Corporate as part of 3 Cdo Bde. On...
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Si Biggs
Jun 11, 20203 min read
30 AU in Normandy - 'You can't behave like Red Indians any more'
30 Assault Unit was formed in 1943 following the merger of 33 Navy Troop and 34 Army Troop. It was a joint venture which emerged from a...
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Si Biggs
Jun 11, 20204 min read
46 CDO RM - The Attack on Le Hamel and Rots - 12 SS Pz Div
Unit/ Formation: 46 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 11 June 1944 The attempted...
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Si Biggs
Jun 7, 20201 min read
46 Cdo RM - D Day +1 - Capture of Petit Enfer
Unit/ Formation: 46 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 7 June 1944 Lieutenant Colonel Hardy’s...
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