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Si Biggs
Nov 12, 20202 min read
Taranto - first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history, Major Patch RM DSC
Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Taranto Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 11 November 1940 The Battle of Taranto...
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Si Biggs
Nov 12, 20202 min read
Battle of the Windmill - Ontario
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Ontario Period/ Conflict: Patriot War Year: 1838 Date/s: 12 November 1838 The Battle of the...
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Si Biggs
Nov 3, 20201 min read
Captain Troy - The Buckingham - Attack on the French
Unit/ Formation: His Majesty's Marine Forces Location: Off Sint Eustatius Period/ Conflict: Seven Years' War Year: 1758 Date/s: 3rd...
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Si Biggs
Nov 2, 20203 min read
Corporal John Prettyjohns - First Royal Marine Victoria Cross - 2nd Nov 1854 – Battle of Inkerman
John Prettyjohns VC (sometimes misspelled Prettyjohn) (11 June 1823 – 20 January 1887) was the first Royal Marine to win the Victoria...
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Si Biggs
Oct 31, 20202 min read
Defence of Antwerp 1914
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: October 1914 Following the fall of...
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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 21, 20203 min read
Royal Marines at The Battle of Trafalgar - Death of Nelson - 21st October 1805
Lord Nelson's victory over the combined fleets at Trafalgar, the most decisive sea battle in British history. Ninety-three officers and...
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Si Biggs
Oct 9, 20201 min read
Kamerun Campaign
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Africa Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 1914 - 1916 By the first week in...
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Si Biggs
Oct 4, 20201 min read
The Battle of Entzheim
Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: France Period/ Conflict: The Franco Dutch War Year: 1674 Date/s: Thursday 4th October 1674...
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Si Biggs
Sep 30, 20201 min read
Royal Marines in Action since 1664 - September
Thank you for following, please come and see some of what the Royal Marines have been doing in September since 1664, 47 pins so far. If...
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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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Si Biggs
Sep 17, 20202 min read
HMS Courageous - First British warship to be sunk in WW 2 - 24 Royal Marines lost
Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Atlantic Ocean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1939 Date/s: 17 September 193939 In the early...
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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 13, 20201 min read
The Capture of Quebec
The Capture of Quebec Unit/ Formation: His Majesty's Marine Forces Location: Canada Period/ Conflict: Seven Years' War Year: 1759 ...
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Si Biggs
Sep 12, 20204 min read
Guy Griffiths - Royal Marines Airman, Painter, Forger and Spy
Guy Beresford Kerr "Griff" Griffiths (6 June 1915 – 12 July 1999) was a Royal Marine pilot. He served as a pilot during the Second World...
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Si Biggs
Sep 12, 20202 min read
Attack on Gebail Castle
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Byblos Period/ Conflict: Egyptian–Ottoman War Year: 1840 Date/s: 12th September 1840 he Oriental...
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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 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
Aug 27, 20202 min read
Murder of Lord Mountbattten
Unit/ Formation: RM People Location: Mullaghmore Period/ Conflict: The Troubles Year: 1979 Date/s: 27 August 1979 Murder of the Colonel...
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Si Biggs
Aug 24, 20201 min read
Battle of Bladensburg, Burning of Washington, USMC Commandant's House
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: North America Period/ Conflict: War of 1812 Year: 1814 Date/s: 24 August 1814 A British force of...
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