Unit/ Formation : Landing Craft Units Location : Tortola Period/ Conflict : Humanitarian Relief Year : 2017 Date/s : 22 September 2017...

Support Craft. The following would provide close support for 7 Brigade. LCG 831, 1007 and 1062. Landing Craft Gun each with two 4.7”...

A Shaggy Dog Story [Royal Marines and D Day by Captain the Reverend D A Farquharson-Roberts RM] Courtesy, the Crew of LCG(L) 1 I am...

In the autumn of 1979, 42 Commando completed an emergency tour in Hong Kong to help the British Forces stationed there in their role of...

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Bergen-op-Zoom Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 1 - 8th November 1944 ...

Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Schouwen Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: November 1944 LCS(M) of Force T, manned by Royal Marines, have been joining night patrols against midget submarines and explosive motorboat attacks from the German-held island of Schouwen. The Landing Craft Support (Medium) (LCS(M)), Mark 2 and Mark 3 manned by Royal Marines they saw action on D Day, including supporting the US Rangers at Pointe Du Hoc and later in Holla

21st July 1944 Normandy HM LCM, 601st Flotilla. Attempting to cross the Channel from the Normandy Beaches the flotilla of small Mark 1...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 D Day was the largest single commitment of Royal Marines in history, with over 17,500 RM taking part. As well as providing 2,500 Marines forming 5 out of the 8 Commando units involved in Operation Overlord Royal Marines took part in many other roles including manning the guns of the battleships providing bombardment, crewing landing craft, crewing tanks, as pilots and

D Day- Gold Beach Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 The first...

Combined Ops Signals Officer Charles Armstrong: (Continued from Embarking 47 Cdo at Southampton) We knew exactly where we were going, for...

3 Commando Brigade forward base established at Teal Inlet 1st June 1982 In preparation for major engagements, 42, 45 Commandos and 3 Para...

Without sufficient helicopter availability following the Exocet attack on and loss of the MV Atlantic Conveyor, 3 Commando Brigade had...

539 ASRM (Assault Squadron Royal Marines) now 539 Raiding Squadron is a unique unit, for those of us that were privileged to have served...

Corporal George Ernest Tandy Ch. X 110723 was 19 years old when as a crewman on LCA 786 he swung down from the davits of Landing Ship...

Matthew White 2016 In 1962, while still a blue beret Young Officer, and while “on hold” to do my Commando Course after an Appendix...

The War Illustrated, Volume 8, No. 194, Page 441, November 24, 1944. Westkapelle, keypoint in the Dutch island of Walcheren blocking the...

1st - 8th November 1944 Operation Infatuate - The Battle of Walcheren. Support Squadron Eastern Flank left from Poole on 28th October...

The Dieppe Raid, Operation Jubilee, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War. The raid...

Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: July 1943 Of the hundreds of landing craft sent against the beaches of Normandy on D Day, a t least two-thirds of the great fleet of L.C.A. that carried the assault waves of infantry to the beaches were manned by Marines, there were also Flotillas landing US Troops on Utah beaches, including RM crewed craft supporting the Rangers at Point de Hoc with fire support. A

Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Pointe Du Hoc Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6th June 1944 East of Utah...