Battle of Gavrelle Windmill Unit/ Formation: RMLI Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 28th to 29th April...

Unit/ Formation: RMLI Location: Gallipolli Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 25 April 1915 Y Beach was one of three...

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 Light Infantry Location: United Kingdom Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 14th April 1915...

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

The Battle of Jutland (31 May - 1 June 1916) was the largest naval battle of the First World War. It was the only time that the British and German fleets of 'dreadnought' battleships actually came to blows. The British flagship HMS Lion , heavily damaged by German shells during the Battle of Dogger Bank 1915.  Postcard after a painting by Willy Stöwer. The German High Seas Fleet hoped to weaken the Royal Navy by launching an ambush on the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea.

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

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

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: English Channel Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 1st January 1915 HMS Formidable was...

HMS Minerva log 31 December 1914 Akabah Lat 29.5, Long 35.0 5.00am: Course & speed as requisite approaching Akaba & anchoring at head of...

In August 1916, a pro-Allied group launched a coup against the monarchy in the Noemvriana, which the Allies sought to support. HMS...

When the First World War broke out, Burge volunteered for active service. He was put in command of one of the Portsmouth Battalion...

Royal Marines Labour Corps Cap Badge The Royal Marines Labour Corps was formed on 2nd February 1917 to resolve the manpower needs created...

Aloysius Stanbridge took part in three wars, the Boer War, 3rd China War (Boxer Rebellion and the Great War) and served under three...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Zanzibar Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 20th September 1914 H.M.S. Pegasus was...

Tuesday, 22 September 1914 SINKING OF CRUISERS ABOUKIR, HOGUE, CRESSY OF DUTCH COAST by U.9 They were known as the “Live Bait” Squadron,...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 19 September 1914 On 2 August, the...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Murmansk, Kola Bay Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 12 July 1918 In Murmansk...

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Gallipoli peninsula Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: April 1915 - January 1916 84...

Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 4 April 1917 Portrait of Frederisk...