Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1916 Date/s: 12th October 1916 On the night of the...

Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Abadan Iraq Period/ Conflict: Year: 1951 Date/s: 3 October 1951 The Abadan Crisis occurred from 1951...

Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Korea Period/ Conflict: Korean War Year: 1950 Date/s: 1 October 1950 The Royal Marines and the USS...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Addu Atoll Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: September 1941 Early in the Second...

Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Düsseldorf Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 22 September 1914 Flight Lieutenant...

Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Ireland Period/ Conflict: Williamite War in Ireland Year: 1690 Date/s: 21 September 1690 1st...

18th September 1955 Rockall was annexed by the British Crown when Lieutenant-Commander Desmond Scott RN, Sergeant Brian Peel RM, Corporal...

Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Portolago Bay Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 18th June 1944 Leros island’s Portolago Bay in the Dodecanese is a natural harbour: deep, two miles long and half a mile wide. At the head of the bay is the town of Portolago (or Lakki as it is known today), the bay – a broad gash in Leros’s south-east coast – became the Italian navy’s main base in the eastern Mediterranean, with port facilities on the southern shore, a double bo

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Devonport Period/ Conflict: 1700's Year: 1763 Date/s: 12th September 1763 Prince Edward, Duke of...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Japan Period/ Conflict: Shimonoseki Campaign Year: 1864 Date/s: 5–6 September 1864 On September...

Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 2 September 1944 On the morning of 31 Aug...

Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: India Period/ Conflict: First Carnatic War Year: 1748 Date/s: August – October 1748 The First...

Unit/ Formation: His Majesty's Marine Forces Location: North America Period/ Conflict: American Revolutionary War (1775–83) Year: 1776...

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: RMLI Location: Medvezhjya Gora Period/ Conflict: Year: 1919 Date/s: 17th August 1919 The 6th Battalion RM in action...

Unit/ Formation: RM Band Service Location: Mediterranean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 12th August 1942 On 12 August...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Lebanon Period/ Conflict: Egyptian–Ottoman War Year: 1840 Date/s: 11 August 1840 In June...

Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Netherlands Period/ Conflict: Second Anglo Dutch War Year: 1666 Date/s: Sunday 8th August...

nit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 1st August 1943 43 Commando was formed on 1st August 1943 after the decision was made to convert the battalions of the Royal Marine Division into commando units. Lt.Gen.Hunton chatting to, and inspecting, members of 43 Commando who have just returned from a 7-mile speed march, completed in 60 minutes The initial intake of personnel was drawn from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Marines, and follo

Unit/ Formation: RM People Location: Western Mediterranean Sea Period/ Conflict: 1800's Year: 1878 Date/s: 27th July 1878 Private...