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The Seige of Pondicherry
Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: India Period/ Conflict: First Carnatic War Year: 1748 Date/s: August – October 1748 The First...
Si Biggs
Aug 27, 20211 min read
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Bombardment of Algiers - Fighting Slavery
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Algiers Period/ Conflict: Slave Wars Year: 1816 Date/s: Sunday 27th August 1816 The bombardment...
Si Biggs
Aug 27, 20212 min read
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Landings on Long Island
Unit/ Formation: His Majesty's Marine Forces Location: North America Period/ Conflict: American Revolutionary War (1775–83) Year: 1776...
Si Biggs
Aug 22, 20212 min read
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Silent Warriors - The Special Boat Service in WW2
From award-winning historian Saul David, the first authorised history of the SBS. Britain's SBS-or Special Boat Service - was the world's...
Si Biggs
Aug 20, 20212 min read
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Operation Jubilee - Amphibious Raid on Dieppe - 19th August 1942
The Dieppe Raid, Operation Jubilee, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War. The raid...
Si Biggs
Aug 19, 20215 min read
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Royal Marines Light Infantry - RMLI Action's in North Russia
Unit/ Formation: RMLI Location: Medvezhjya Gora Period/ Conflict: Year: 1919 Date/s: 17th August 1919 The 6th Battalion RM in action...
Si Biggs
Aug 17, 20212 min read
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VJ Day - Victory over Japan - Royal Marines in SE Asia & the Pacific
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the Allies dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. On August 9, the Soviet Union declared...
Si Biggs
Aug 15, 20211 min read
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HMS Nigeria Torpedoed
Unit/ Formation: RM Band Service Location: Mediterranean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 12th August 1942 On 12 August...
Si Biggs
Aug 12, 20212 min read
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Landings at Jounieh with 1,500 Turks and Marines
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Lebanon Period/ Conflict: Egyptian–Ottoman War Year: 1840 Date/s: 11 August 1840 In June...
Si Biggs
Aug 11, 20211 min read
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Holmes's Bonfire
Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Netherlands Period/ Conflict: Second Anglo Dutch War Year: 1666 Date/s: Sunday 8th August...
Si Biggs
Aug 8, 20211 min read
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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...
Si Biggs
Aug 1, 20211 min read
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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...
Si Biggs
Aug 1, 20212 min read
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Private Gerrighty RMLI Albert Medal
Unit/ Formation: RM People Location: Western Mediterranean Sea Period/ Conflict: 1800's Year: 1878 Date/s: 27th July 1878 Private...
Si Biggs
Jul 27, 20212 min read
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Advance to Eshowe - Battle of Ginghilovo
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines (RMA/RMLI) Location: Ginghilovo - South Africa Period/ Conflict: Zulu Wars Year: 1879 Date/s: 2nd April...
Si Biggs
Jul 21, 20212 min read
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Major Thomas Oldfield - Consulted by Nelson; His Gallantry spoken of by Napoleon
On the night before the landings at Tenerife on 21 July 1797 Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson held his war council where Captain Thomas...
Si Biggs
Jul 19, 20215 min read
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Napoleon Buonaparte Inspects the Royal Marine Guard
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: Napoleonic Wars Year: 1815 Date/s: 16th July 1815 From the Memoirs of...
Simon Biggs
Jul 16, 20212 min read
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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...
Royal Marines Association
Jul 15, 20217 min read
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Second Voyage of James Cook
Unit/ Formation: His Majesty's Marine Forces Location: Plymouth Sound Period/ Conflict: Year: 1772 Date/s: 13 July 1772 HMS Resolution...
Si Biggs
Jul 13, 20212 min read
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Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Royal Marines Charity News | 13.07.21 A message from Commandant General Royal Marines, Lieutenant General Rob Magowan CB CBE “You will be...
Royal Marines Association
Jul 13, 20211 min read
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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...
Si Biggs
Jul 10, 20216 min read
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