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SBS Operations - East Falklands - Fanning Head

Si Biggs

May 20, 20212 min read

SBS Operations - East Falklands - Fanning Head

Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 20/ 21 May 1982 Of concern to the...

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Si Biggs

Apr 22, 20213 min read

SBS - Raid on Santorini Axis Camp

Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Santorini Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 22nd April 1944 Just after midnight on April...

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Loss of HM Submarine Affray & 4 Man SBS team

Si Biggs

Apr 16, 20213 min read

Loss of HM Submarine Affray & 4 Man SBS team

Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: 1950's Year: 1951 Date/s: 16 April 1951 HMS Affray a British Amphion-class...

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Tanker stowaways: ‘Hijacking’ ends after SBS storm ship

Si Biggs

Oct 25, 20202 min read

Tanker stowaways: ‘Hijacking’ ends after SBS storm ship

Seven people were detained when military forces stormed a tanker suspected to have been hijacked off the Isle of Wight. Sixteen members...

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Si Biggs

Sep 9, 20201 min read

SBS Hostage Rescue - Stephen Farrell

Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Kunduz Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan (2001-) Year: 2009 Date/s: 9 September 2009 The Special Boat...

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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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SBS - Operation Ilois - Ambushed by the Taliban

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

May 26, 20202 min read

NGS in Fox Bay - SBS and 148 Bty

Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Knob Island, Fox Bay Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 26 May 1982 SBS Operations -...

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Submarine Canoe Insertion against the IRA

Simon Biggs

Jan 16, 20201 min read

Submarine Canoe Insertion against the IRA

Operation Aweless Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Northern Ireland Period/ Conflict: Northern Ireland Conflict Year: 1975 Date/s:...

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Operation Frankton - The Cockleshell Heroes

Simon Biggs

Dec 7, 20194 min read

Operation Frankton - The Cockleshell Heroes

Combined Operations commander Admiral Louis Mountbatten regarded it as “the most courageous and imaginative of all the raids ever carried...

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SAS Raid on Cortley Ridge - Supported by SBS and 1st Raiding Squadron

SImon Biggs

Oct 23, 20197 min read

SAS Raid on Cortley Ridge - Supported by SBS and 1st Raiding Squadron

Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: The Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 13 June 1982...

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Remembering Lieutenant Colonel Mark “Foggy” Phillips MBE

Simon Biggs

Aug 7, 20194 min read

Remembering Lieutenant Colonel Mark “Foggy” Phillips MBE

Lieutenant Colonel Mark “Foggy” Phillips MBE, soldier, security consultant. Born: 24 May 1961, Gloucestershire. Died: 12 August 2017,...

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The Royal Marines Projecting Power since 1664 - a Geo History

Simon Biggs

Jul 30, 20182 min read

The Royal Marines Projecting Power since 1664 - a Geo History

The Royal Marines - A Geo History 1664 to Present The Globe & Laurel March/April 2018 by Simon Biggs Even before I was a young Marine in...

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Remembering Major Richard Clifford - Marine officer who parachuted into the sea with the SBS

Simon 'Peters' Biggs

Apr 1, 20182 min read

Remembering Major Richard Clifford - Marine officer who parachuted into the sea with the SBS

Major Richard Clifford of the Royal Marines, May 19 1946 - November 15 2015 (69), was a Special Boats Service officer who parachuted into...

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Major Anders Lassen VC - SBS - Lake Commachio 8 - 9th April 1945

Simon Biggs

Jan 18, 20183 min read

Major Anders Lassen VC - SBS - Lake Commachio 8 - 9th April 1945

On the night of 8th – 9th April 1945 eighteen men from the Special Boat Service set out across Lake Comacchio to attack heavily defended...

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Operation Frankton is launched from HMS Tuna

Si Biggs

Dec 7, 20173 min read

Operation Frankton is launched from HMS Tuna

At 7.17 pm on December 7, 1942, His Majesty’s Submarine Tuna surfaced off the coast of Occupied France near the mouth of the River...

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The Cockelshell Heroes - Operation Frankton survivors reach their target

Si Biggs

Dec 12, 20162 min read

The Cockelshell Heroes - Operation Frankton survivors reach their target

Of the six two man canoes that had been brought to the French coast by HMS Tuna on the 7th December, only five had been launched because...

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