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Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Jeremy 'Robin' Ross, KCB, OBE 1939-2025
Lieutenant-General Sir Robin Ross, KCB, OBE, died 29 July, 2025. He was 85. Ross was a dynamic Royal Marine who led British humanitarian...

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Aug 183 min read
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Loss of Old Contemptble - Arthur Townroe RMLI - 10 Nov 1918
A TOWNROE KILLED. ONEÂ DAY BEFORE ARMISTICE WAS SIGNED. ONE OF THE OLD "CONTEMPTIBLES." It is with deep regret and sympathy we have to...

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Nov 11, 20244 min read
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Major Oldfield and Colonel Walker Royal Marines; Memorial Tablet in Jerusalum
Major Thomas Oldfield (21 June 1756 – 1799) When on passage to St. Helena, Naploeon spoke of Oldfield's gallantry to the marine officers...

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Sep 23, 20245 min read
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Major Geoff Dyer RMR - Gentleman Rogue
Geoff Dyer was an inspiration to many young people and cannot express how I feel about Geoff’s passing. I had the privilege of sitting...

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Sep 13, 20243 min read
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Vincent Kemel Horton - Crete-Tobruk-D Day
Royal Marines Commando Vincent Horton was bombed, shot at, shelled and captured (twice!) during WWII. Vince joined the Royal Marines in...

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Jul 13, 20243 min read
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Defense at Hauger and Medal Investiture held by General Montgomery
6th July 1944 Commitment of GRANDE FERME DU BUISSON was discontinued. 7th July 1944 Place: Hauger 1130 - Commando relieved 4 Commando in...

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Mar 27, 20242 min read
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SS Dalewood torpedoed - loss of 2 RMLI crew
26th February 1918 SS Dalewood, Admiralty-hired collier, torpedoed and sunk by U.105 in Irish Sea off the Isle of Man whilst transfering...

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Feb 26, 20242 min read
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Cpl Reginald Campbell - KIA Sarawak
1964 Corporal Reginald CHAPPELL: Service Number RM 15686 of 42 Commando RM. He was killed in action during the Confrontation with...

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Feb 26, 20241 min read
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Lt Charles Morgan - the ‘boat action’ before New Orleans 1814
Charles Morgan was first Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Marines on 11th Sept 1805. Promoted Lieutenant on 11th Nov 1808, he was...

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Jan 18, 20245 min read
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Lt H.M. Day RMLI - Albert Medal
On 9th November 1918 H.M.S. Britannia which had been patrolling on the routes west of Gibraltar when passing Cape Trafalgar was torpedoed...

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Nov 9, 20231 min read
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Cpl Jeremy Smith RM Memorial Plaque
The Cpl Jeremy Smith RM (Decd.) Memorial Plaque Story by Tony Sickelmore In Aug 2022, Dale Mills (former Marine, 42 Cdo 1982) sent me the...

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Sep 2, 20234 min read
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Trevor Philpott - Junior Marine to King’s Badge to Lt Col OBE, RM, FRSA
Trevor Philpott - died unexpectedly but peacefully at home in South Shields on Saturday 8th July 2023. Trevor grew up in the Tavistock...

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Aug 5, 20236 min read
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James Louis Moulton
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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Aug 1, 20233 min read
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Lt Colonel Drysdale, Royal Marines, Commanding Officer 41 Independent Commando
Colonel Douglas Burns Drysdale was born in Hampstead, a suburb of London, on 2 October 1916. He spent the majority of his youth in...

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Jul 29, 20233 min read
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Captain Raymond McMahon Winter - D Day with the Royal Marines Amoured Support Group
Capt R.M. Winter commanded 4 Bty, 2nd R.M. Aroured Support Regiment. Landing on D Day in a Sherman Command Tank. A Journey Through War:...

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Jul 8, 20237 min read
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Lt Col Richard N. Bendyshe - Shot by a 'Spy' or sentry?
Richard (DIck) Nelson Bendyshe was born on 18th January 1866 in Ontario, Canada. His parents were Charlotte Brodrick and Nelson Bendyshe...

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Apr 15, 20234 min read
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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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Feb 27, 20231 min read
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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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Feb 26, 20234 min read
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Tank Attack - With a Pistol - Capt. Marshall MC (Bar)
Ty/Lt (/ty/Capt) Lionel Guy Bradford MARSHALL, M.C. R.M. (Bar to the M.C.) 22.1.44. Crossing of the Garigliano. Capt Marshall was in...

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Jan 21, 20232 min read
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Lt Colonel Norman Ormsby Burge
When the First World War broke out, Burge volunteered for active service. He was put in command of one of the Portsmouth Battalion...

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Nov 19, 20223 min read
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