Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Atlantic Ocean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 6th December 1942 On 3 November 1942...

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Scapa Flow Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1939 Date/s: 14th October 1939 At 01.16 hours on 14...

Tuesday, 22 September 1914 SINKING OF CRUISERS ABOUKIR, HOGUE, CRESSY OF DUTCH COAST by U.9 They were known as the “Live Bait” Squadron,...

“Many of these fine men and their ships were lost but the memory of their conduct will remain an inspiration to all who were privileged...

Unit/ Formation: RM ASG Location: Musa Qala Period/ Conflict: War in Afghanistan Year: 2008 Date/s: 25th May 2008. While returning to Sangin following an operation in support of 2 PARA battlegroup, the Vikings of 3rd Troop, Armoured Support Company, Royal Marines were the target of an enemy ambush. As the convoy began to cross the Helmand river the waiting Taliban engaged the convoy with RPGs, heavy machine gun and sniper fire. Painting: Crossing the Helmand by David Pentland

Operation Corporate Roll of Honour The 'Yomper', Site of the former Royal Marines Museaum, Eastney Esplanade , Southsea, PO4 9PX (Photo: NMRN) A total of 255 British servicemen and 3 Falkland Island civilians were killed during the Falklands War. Royal Navy – 86 + 2 Hong Kong laundrymen Royal Marines – 27 (2 officers, 14 NCOs and 11 marines) Royal Fleet Auxiliary – 4 + 6 Hong Kong sailors Merchant Navy – 6 British Army – 123 (7 officers, 40 NCOs and 76 privates) Royal Air Fo

On Easter Sunday 1943 (25 April), gale force winds and wild seas were lashing at the coast. Close to land, among the giant breakers and...

April-July 1949 HMS Amethyst sailed from Shanghai on 19th April to relieve HMS Consort at Nanking. Fired at on 20th at around 0900, 60 miles from Nanking and grounded on Rose Island with heavy casualties, about 60 crew landed and many made their way to Shanghai with Chinese help. October 13, 1949: HMS Amethyst passing through Suez Canal en route home following the Yangtze Incident. (https://www.naval-history.net/WXLG-Amethyst1949.htm) Consort ordered from Nanking to assist Am

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Gallipoli peninsula Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: April 1915 - January 1916 84...

After the raid on Colombo by the Japanese aircraft carriers on 5 April, known as the Easter Sunday Raid, Hermes and Vampire were sent to...

On 2 April, Cornwall and her half sister, Dorsetshire , were detached from the fleet, Dorsetshire to resume an interrupted refit and Cornwall to escort convoy SU-4 (composed of the U.S. Army transport USAT Willard A. Holbrook and Australian transport MV Duntroon ) to Australia and the aircraft carrier Hermes to Trincomalee in Ceylon for repairs “Sinking of HMS Cornwall at The Battle of the Indian Ocean” by Hishiro Kobayakawa 1942 On 4 April, the Japanese fleet was spotte

Belgrade War Cemetery was created to receive the remains of British and Commonwealth casualties brought in from more than sixty small...

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Indian Ocean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 12th February 1944 On 5 February 1944...

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Off Anzio Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 29th January 1944 Loss of AA Cruiser HMS...

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: West Coast of Ireland Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 13th January 1915 RMS Atrato...

Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Malaysia Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 10 December 1941 The British BattleShips HMS Prince of Wales and Battlrcruiser HMS Repulse were the central elements of Force Z, tasked with intercepting a Japanese invasion fleet. The objective of Force Z, which consisted of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales, the Battlecruiser HMS Repulse and four destroyers, was to intercept the Japanese invasion fleet in the South China Sea nort

Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Royal Naval Air Station Eastchurch Period/ Conflict: 1900's Year: 1913 Date/s: 2nd December 1913 Churchill had a course of flying lessons while he was First Lord of the Admiralty and came close to graduating as a pilot but, despite personal enthusiasm, he didn't persevere with the instruction due to family pressure more so after the death of his instructor Capt G.V. Wildman-Lushington (RMA) when his plane a Henry Farmer Bi Plane crashed o

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Mediterranean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 25th November 1941 1941 Loss of...

TIMMINS, CHARLES ERNEST PO/19601 Bugler Age:14 (Born 7th Dec. 1902) Royal Marine Light Infantry H.M.S "Cardiff.". Son of Private John...

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Westminster Abbey Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1920 Date/s: 11 November 1920 In 1920, as part...