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 28, 20231 min read
Landing in Murmansk
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Murmansk Period/ Conflict: Russian Intervention Year: 1918 Date/s: 6th March 1918 British...
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Si Biggs
Mar 25, 20231 min read
Rescue of the Persian Residency
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Bushehr Period/ Conflict: 1800's Year: 1839 Date/s: 25th March 1839 After taking Karachi HMS...
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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 22, 20231 min read
Ambush in Belfast - Marine James Macklin Killed
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Belfast Period/ Conflict: Northern Ireland Conflict Year: 1974 Date/s: 22 March 1974 Marine James...
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Si Biggs
Mar 21, 20231 min read
3 Cdo Bde - CH46 Crash - Kuwait
Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Kuwait Period/ Conflict: Iraq War (2003 - 2009) Year: 2003 Date/s: 21 March 2003 At around midnight...
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Si Biggs
Mar 20, 20233 min read
Royal Marines - Operation Telic
Starting on 20th March 2003, 40 and 42 Commando moved into Southern Iraq to secure the oil fields and prevent Saddam from setting them on...
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Si Biggs
Mar 17, 20232 min read
Royal Marines' Cemetery - San Juan Island National Historical Park
The Royal Marines who died during the joint occupation of San Juan Island with the USMC rest in honor here. Jim Crook was one year old...
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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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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 28, 20231 min read
February Marines
This month I have been concentrating on the Royal Marines Roll of Honour data base, so many entries are just names with no details, and...
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Si Biggs
Feb 28, 20232 min read
Battle of El Teb
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Sudan Period/ Conflict: Sudanese War Year: 1884 Date/s: 29 February 1884 On the 21st, the force...
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Si Biggs
Feb 27, 20231 min read
By Sea by Land
By Land and Sea (1941) This march was modeled on Alford's entry into a competition in 1934 for an official slow march for the Royal...
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Si Biggs
Feb 26, 20237 min read
'the Birkenead drill is a damn tough bullet to chew'
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: South Africa Period/ Conflict: 1800's Year: 1852 Date/s: 26 February 1852 Royal Marines were...
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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 23, 20234 min read
5th R.M. A.A. (Anti-Aircraft) Brigade - NW Europe
North West Europe: August 1944 – May 1945 At the end of August, the move to the Continent began when on 28th August the Regiment went to...
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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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