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Si Biggs
Aug 1, 20211 min read
Formation of 43 Cdo Royal Marines
nit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 1st August 1943 43 Commando was formed on 1st...
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Si Biggs
Aug 1, 20212 min read
45 Cdo Royal Marines Formed in Burley Hampshire
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Great Britian Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 1st August 1943 45 RM Commando was...
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Royal Marines Association
Jul 15, 20217 min read
Jim Wren Royal Marines at 100
Article from the Royal Marines Charity; Visiting Jim Wren, 100-year-old veteran The Royal Marines Association were lucky enough to secure...
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Si Biggs
Jul 10, 20216 min read
Royal Marines WWII Landing Craft Crews - Europe
Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: July 1943 Of the hundreds...
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Si Biggs
Jul 8, 20213 min read
Major Reginald Ingleton Executed by Beheading - 7 July 1945 - Operation Rimau
Operation Rimau was an attack on Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour, carried out by an Allied commando unit Z Special Unit, during...
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Si Biggs
Jul 2, 20213 min read
Supporting the Rangers at Pointe Du Hoc
Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Pointe Du Hoc Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6th June 1944 East of Utah...
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Si Biggs
Jun 1, 20214 min read
VE Day - Royal Marines in WW2
Royal Marines served in every theater and in almost every major sea engagement in the Second World War and were in action until the last...
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Si Biggs
May 23, 20218 min read
The Sacrifice Army - Royal Marines in the Rearguard Action At Calais
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 24th May 1940 Calais – Friday 24 to...
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Si Biggs
May 22, 20212 min read
Loss of 90 RM on HMS Gloucester
HMS Gloucester was one of the second batch of three Town-classlight cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the late 1930s. Transferred...
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Si Biggs
Apr 29, 20212 min read
Trincomalee War Cemetery
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Trincomalee Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1948 Date/s: April 1948 Trincomalee is a seaport on...
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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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Si Biggs
Apr 22, 20211 min read
Operation Bograt - 48RM Cdo
Unit/ Formation: 48 Cdo RM Location: Beisbosch Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: April 1945 Major 'Pat' Wall 48RM Cdo and...
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Si Biggs
Apr 21, 20216 min read
Charles Henry Bowden BEM - Corps Drum Major
By Colin E Bowden Charles Henry Bowden or as he was better known - 'Charlie' Bowden, not that the rank and file would have addressed him...
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Si Biggs
Apr 2, 20213 min read
Corporal Thomas Peck Hunter RM - Victoria Cross
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 9 April 1945 Hunter was 21 years old,...
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Si Biggs
Mar 4, 20212 min read
Operation Claymore
Unit/ Formation: Combined Ops Location: Lofoten Islands Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 4th March 1941 Operation...
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Si Biggs
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Hand to Hand Combat
Royal Navy and Royal Marines Close Combat training film. As Shakespeare says 'be bloody, bold and resolute' Sorry 'Jack!' Watch here:...
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Si Biggs
Feb 27, 20217 min read
Norwegian heavy water sabotage 'Heroes of Telemark'
Unit/ Formation: Combined Ops Location: Norway Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 1940 - 1943 When they learnt that the...
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Si Biggs
Feb 18, 20212 min read
HMS Penelope Sunk off Anzio
Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Naples Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 18 February 1944 HMS Penelope was an...
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Si Biggs
Feb 11, 20211 min read
Force Viper - Burma
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Burma Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: February - March 1942 Force 'Viper' 106...
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Si Biggs
Jan 28, 20211 min read
Attack on Belle Island
1 Cdo Bde HQ War Diary Jan-Mar 1945 27 January 1945 Brachterbeek No change in weather. More snow showers. 2215 - 45 RM Cdo sent a...
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