Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Scapa Flow Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 9 July 1917 Shortly before midnight...

HMS Suffolk Lat 43.1, Long 131.88 On the 9th April 1918 the cruiser HMS Suffolk landed a Marine Detachment to act as Consular Guard at...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 28th to 29th April 1917 The battle of...

Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 23 April 1918 Bamford was 30 years...

Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 23 April 1918 Finch was 27 years...

On 30 January 1855, Her Majesty Queen Victoria approved an Admiralty Minute designating the infantry of the Royal Marines a 'Light Corps'...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 5th to 7th April 1918 2nd Battalion RMLI...

The Battle of Latema Nek was a battle of the East African Campaign in World War I, the force included No 9 Field Battery Royal Marines –...

The Silver Drums in memory of the 143 ranks of the Band Service who lost their lives in the Great War were paid for by voluntary...

On the night of the 23rd February 1944 former Royal Marine Tony Smith earnt the George Cross in a daring rescue. Anthony Smith...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Lemnos Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 23rd February 1915 The Island of Lemnos...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 17th to 21st February 1917 The 1st Royal...

Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: North Atlantic Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 3 February 1915 HMS Clan MacNaughton...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Cape Helles Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1916 Date/s: 9th January 1916 At about 1:40pm on...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: October 1914 Following the fall of...

During Juky 1916 in East Africa the Germans from Tanga and Pangani made an advance on Sadani. Seamen and Royal Marines from HMS Talbot...

Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Gallipoli Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 30 April 1915 In April 1915, the...

Saturday 17th - 18th February. 1 RMLI and 2 RMLI in action at Miraumont On the north bank of the Ancre, the 63rd Division attacked on 17...

Capture of Salif Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Salif Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 12th January...

Commissioned in 1897, one of the nine-ship Eclipse class, Doris was a 5600-ton, 350-foot second-class protected cruiser, designed for...