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Si Biggs
Apr 14, 20231 min read
1000'th Royal Marine killed in WW1
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Light Infantry Location: United Kingdom Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 14th April 1915...
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Si Biggs
Mar 5, 20235 min read
Amphibious Raids against the Turkish Guns
Royal Marines acted as landing parties in the Naval campaign against the Turkish fortifications in the Dardanelles before the Gallipoli...
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Si Biggs
Mar 1, 20232 min read
The Battle of Jutland - 574 Royal Marines Lost
The Battle of Jutland (31 May - 1 June 1916) was the largest naval battle of the First World War. It was the only time that the British...
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Si Biggs
Feb 26, 20234 min read
Col. Harold Ozanne DSO RMLI
Harold Ozanne was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry in 1897 1897 to 1914 - Mediterranean, Pacific, West Indies Harold...
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Si Biggs
Feb 19, 20232 min read
SS Motagua Collision
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Irish Coast Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 19th March 1918 SS Motagua armed...
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Si Biggs
Jan 1, 20236 min read
Sinking of HMS Formidable - 86 RMs lost
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: English Channel Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 1st January 1915 HMS Formidable was...
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Si Biggs
Dec 31, 20221 min read
Landing in Akabah
HMS Minerva log 31 December 1914 Akabah Lat 29.5, Long 35.0 5.00am: Course & speed as requisite approaching Akaba & anchoring at head of...
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Si Biggs
Dec 1, 20224 min read
Shore Party during the Greek Intervention
In August 1916, a pro-Allied group launched a coup against the monarchy in the Noemvriana, which the Allies sought to support. HMS...
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Si Biggs
Nov 19, 20223 min read
Lt Colonel Norman Ormsby Burge
When the First World War broke out, Burge volunteered for active service. He was put in command of one of the Portsmouth Battalion...
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Si Biggs
Oct 15, 20224 min read
Aloysius Stanbridge - three wars & three monarchs
Aloysius Stanbridge took part in three wars, the Boer War, 3rd China War (Boxer Rebellion and the Great War) and served under three...
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Si Biggs
Sep 24, 20223 min read
Destruction under gunfire of Pegasus in Zanzibar Harbour
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Zanzibar Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 20th September 1914 H.M.S. Pegasus was...
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Si Biggs
Sep 22, 20224 min read
Loss of the 'Live Bait' Squadron
Tuesday, 22 September 1914 SINKING OF CRUISERS ABOUKIR, HOGUE, CRESSY OF DUTCH COAST by U.9 They were known as the “Live Bait” Squadron,...
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Si Biggs
Sep 19, 20222 min read
Churchills “Flying Column” Royal Marines
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 19 September 1914 On 2 August, the...
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Si Biggs
Apr 21, 20222 min read
British, US & French Marines Storm the 'Askold' in Murmansk
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Murmansk, Kola Bay Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 12 July 1918 In Murmansk...
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Si Biggs
Apr 10, 20221 min read
Lancashire Landing Cemetery
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Gallipoli peninsula Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: April 1915 - January 1916 84...
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Si Biggs
Apr 4, 20223 min read
Major Frederick William Lumsden RMA - VC
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 4 April 1917 Brigadier General...
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Si Biggs
Apr 1, 20223 min read
Royal Marines Stopping the Fins in Russia
HMS Glory was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia,...
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Si Biggs
Mar 31, 20222 min read
Captain James Maynard - 50 years of Service
Captain James Maynard This information and life time achievements were found by chance during a house sale and are an astonishing...
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Si Biggs
Jan 13, 20223 min read
Sinking of HMS Viknor
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: West Coast of Ireland Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 13th January 1915 RMS Atrato...
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Si Biggs
Nov 13, 20216 min read
Royal Marines Light Infantry - The Battle of the Ancre (Battles of the Somme 1916)
Unit/ Formation: RMLI Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1916 Date/s: 13th to 15th November 1916 (1RM: 127 killed; 2RM...
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