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Si Biggs
Jul 3, 20237 min read
Operation Catapult - Attack on the French Fleet - Mers-el-Kébir
The attack on Mers-el-Kébir (Battle of Mers-el-Kébir) on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on neutral...
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Si Biggs
Jul 3, 20233 min read
Seizure of the Surcouf - Operation Grasp
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 3 July 1940 In 1940, Surcouf was...
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Si Biggs
Jun 6, 20234 min read
45 Cdo Royal Marines - D Day
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 On the afternoon of the 5th...
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Si Biggs
Jun 6, 20232 min read
Linking up with the Paras on the Orne Bridgehead
News was now received that the Brigade was to come under command of the Sixth Airborne Division, and that the 5th Parachute Brigade had...
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Si Biggs
Jun 6, 20232 min read
D DAY Royal Marines
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 D Day was the largest...
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Si Biggs
Jun 6, 20237 min read
47 Commando - The Advance to Port-en-Bessin
D Day- Gold Beach Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 The first...
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Si Biggs
Jun 6, 202310 min read
D Day from an LCA
Combined Ops Signals Officer Charles Armstrong: (Continued from Embarking 47 Cdo at Southampton) We knew exactly where we were going, for...
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Si Biggs
Jun 6, 20235 min read
Nan Red 6th June 1944 - No. 48 (Royal Marine) Commando
No. 48 (Royal Marine) Commando was formed in March 1944 and was the last commando unit formed during the Second World War. It was formed...
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Si Biggs
May 27, 20233 min read
Sinking of the Bismarck
Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Atlantic Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 27th May 1941 The last battle of the...
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Si Biggs
May 17, 20232 min read
Bombing of HMS Royal Arthur
Unit/ Formation: Barracks/ Camps Location: Skegness Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 21 February 1942 HMS Royal Arthur...
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Si Biggs
May 10, 20231 min read
Operation Fork - Invasion of Iceland
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Iceland Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 10 May 1940 The invasion of Iceland,...
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Si Biggs
May 5, 20231 min read
Operation Iron Clad
Unit/ Formation: Combined Ops Location: Madagascar Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 5 May 1942 Allied commanders...
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Si Biggs
Apr 18, 20232 min read
Force Viper - Escape
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Burma Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: April 1943 Only 58 of the original 106...
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Si Biggs
Apr 16, 20233 min read
Attack on Emmahaven
Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Padang Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 16th April 1945 An airstrike was made on...
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Si Biggs
Apr 14, 20231 min read
Landings at Namsos - Royal Marines first ashore in Norway
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Norway Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 14 - 16th April 1940 The first Allied...
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Si Biggs
Apr 10, 20232 min read
Sinking of the German cruiser Königsberg
Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Bergan Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: Date/s: 10 April 1940 Captain R.T. Partridge, Royal...
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Si Biggs
Mar 29, 20234 min read
Loss of Trinidad by own Torpedo
HMS Trinidad was a Royal Navy Fiji-class light cruiser. She was lost while serving in the Arctic on convoy duty after being damaged by...
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Si Biggs
Mar 23, 20237 min read
Operation Widgeon - 'Never in the history of human warfare have so many guns supported so few men'
Battle Prep The sun blazed down on the seemingly placid waters of the ever-present smoke-screen Lieutenant-General Ritchie, the Rhine on...
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Si Biggs
Mar 11, 20233 min read
Lt George Davies - Det 385
After Operation DEFRAUD in the Burmese jungle in 1945 the patrol leader, Major ER Breen, wrote in the debrief “I managed to collect a...
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Si Biggs
Mar 8, 20232 min read
HMS Mount Stewart and the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment
This secret unit specialising in irregular warfare consisted of servicemen from the Navy, Royal Marines and Army under the command of...
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