A painting commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee and d epictin g Roy al Marine AA Gunners bring down a V1 Flying-bomb is described on the IWM site as ' Four marines take cover in a ditch as a flying-bomb, trailing smoke, plummets to earth' But the painting provides only a small hint of the Royal Marines involvement in the V1 and V2 story. The V-1 was the first of the Vergeltungswaffen  (V-weapons) deployed for the terror bombing of London. German V1 (Fiesler Fi

Unit/ Formation : Barracks/ Camps Location : Japan Period/ Conflict : Korean War Year : 1951 Date/s : January 1951 Finally, 41 Commando left Koto-ri with the 5th RCT, marching the 23 miles to Hungnam in awful weather conditions. On arrival Drysdale’s men were loaded onto trucks and taken to a tented assembly area. Their ordeal of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir was over.  Members of 41 Commando and the U.S. 5th Marines’ RCT were the last to leave Koto-ri, marching the 23 miles

TANK HUNTING by Capt.J.E.Stiebel, R.M. Extract from 40 Commando Royal Marines War Diary January 1943 World War II German Panther Tank...

The final battle of the American war of 1812 was fought at New Orleans, it took place 5 miles east-southeast of the city of New Orleans...

Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Spain Period/ Conflict: Year: 1706 Date/s: 15 January 1706 The Marines had a considerable...

James Louis Moulton was born on 3 June 1906, the son of J. D. Moulton. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Barnet, and...

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On the evening of 22nd January HM Queen Victoria died at Osborne, Isle of Wight, and for a time the world seemed to stand still; it was...

Force 2. (A.P. and X troops). [40 CDO RM War Diary] The day of 17th January was spent in the lying up area until 2015 hrs when the area...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: UK Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 15th January - July 1945 The 117th Infantry...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Transkei Period/ Conflict: The Frontier Wars Year: 1878 Date/s: 13th January 1878 “After...

Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Burma Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 12 January 1945 On 12th January 1945, the...

Unit/ Formation: His Majesty's Marine Forces Location: Sri Lanka Period/ Conflict: Fourth Anglo Dutch War Year: 1782 Date/s: 5 January 1782 On January 5, 1782 British troops landed at Back Bay and captured Fort Trincomalee by surprise. After the capture of Negapatam, the tempestuous state of the weather retarded the intended departure of the 1782. squadron of sir Edward Hughes to attack the Dutch settlement of Trincomalé, in the island Of Ceylon; but the squadron having embar

Extract from ADM 202/30 re No 1 (RM) Engineer Commando 3 Troop RM Engineer Commando Report on Operations at AKYAB, MYEBON & KANGAW Period...

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: English Channel Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 1st January 1915 HMS Formidable was sunk by torpedo off the English Coast on New Years Day 1915, only 199 men were saved out of a complement of about 750 including 86 Royal Marines. HMS Formidable , the third of four ships of that name to serve in the Royal Navy, was the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships. The ship was laid down in March 1898, was launched i

Royal Marines Commandos supported "discreet operations" when deployed to Ukraine earlier this year, a former head of the Marines has...

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: Royal Marines Location: Guadeloupe Period/ Conflict: Napoleonic Wars Year: 1810 Date/s: 28 January and 6 February 1810...

'Sarie Marais' was an old South African folk song often used by the Boer Commandos and quickly spread at home by soldiers coming back...

Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: S of Baghdad Period/ Conflict: Operation Granby (Gulf War 1) Year: 1991 Date/s: 23 January 1991. Led by Lt...