Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: China Period/ Conflict: Opium Wars Year: 1841 Date/s: 18 March 1841 The First Battle of Canton...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Burma Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: April 1943 Only 58 of the original 106...

Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Padang Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 16th April 1945 An airstrike was made on Emmahaven, PADANG; SUMATRA by Force 63 under Vice Admiral HTC Walker in Queen Elizabeth other ships included HMS Cumberland and London with Richlieu (French) D26 destroyers Venus Verulam Verdant and Virago. Carriers HMS Emperor and Khedive with FAA 808 Squadron (Hellcats)-nine officers and men were given awards for the strike. RM pilots were

Richard (DIck) Nelson Bendyshe was born on 18th January 1866 in Ontario, Canada. His parents were Charlotte Brodrick and Nelson Bendyshe...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Norway Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 14 - 16th April 1940 The first Allied...

HMS Trinidad was a Royal Navy Fiji-class light cruiser. She was lost while serving in the Arctic on convoy duty after being damaged by...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Bushehr Period/ Conflict: 1800's Year: 1839 Date/s: 25th March 1839 After taking Karachi HMS...

The Royal Marines who died during the joint occupation of San Juan Island with the USMC rest in honor here. Jim Crook was one year old...

This secret unit specialising in irregular warfare consisted of servicemen from the Navy, Royal Marines and Army under the command of...

Royal Marines acted as landing parties in the Naval campaign against the Turkish fortifications in the Dardanelles before the Gallipoli...

This month I have been concentrating on the Royal Marines Roll of Honour data base, so many entries are just names with no details, and...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Sudan Period/ Conflict: Sudanese War Year: 1884 Date/s: 29 February 1884 On the 21st, the force...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: South Africa Period/ Conflict: 1800's Year: 1852 Date/s: 26 February 1852 Royal Marines were...

Harold Ozanne was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry in 1897 1897 to 1914 - Mediterranean, Pacific, West Indies Harold...

North West Europe: August 1944 – May 1945 At the end of August, the move to the Continent began when on 28th August the Regiment went to...

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Irish Coast Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 19th March 1918 SS Motagua armed...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Deception Island, Antarctica Period/ Conflict: Year: 1953 Date/s: 15th February 1953 HMS Snipe...

On 2nd January, HRH the Duke of York, now His Majesty King George V, was made Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Marine Forces, in 1901 the...

Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Haifa Period/ Conflict: Palestine Mandate Year: 1948 Date/s: 30th January - 30th June 1948 Royal...

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...