Months after its formation 47 RM Cdo was given its first active service task. It was asked to select a detachment for ‘special duties’. Of the officers who volunteered, two were selected, Captain Isherwood and Lt Bennett, and they were asked to nominate their own men, 30 in number.  The title ‘Timberforce’ was given to the detachment as it would be serving in boats of wooden construction. The force set off on 4th October 1943 for Lerwick in the Shetlands. It was to operate wi

In July 1940, Churchill began to prod the Ministry of Supply – his memorandum of 7th July reads `What is being done about designing and planning vessels to transport tanks across the sea for a British attack on enemy countries?’ The design was given to a young Naval Constructor, Mr. Roland Baker. Fortunately for the Navy, Baker happened to be the ideal man for the job, a constructor with an inventive mind, exuberant spirit and no respecter of rank. Within three days he had pr

Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Wick & Hatston Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: July - October 1940 56 Fleet...

What a wekend! 'We Have Ways Festival' 2025! Al Murray and James Holland opening the Way Have Ways Fest 2025 Well the 'move order' worked...

Unit/ Formation : Royal Marines Location : Malaysia Period/ Conflict : World War II Year : 1945 Date/s : 28 August 1945 Operation Jurist...

On August 6 and 9, 1945, the Allies dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. On August 9, the Soviet Union declared...

Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Great Britian Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 1st August 1943 Formed on 1st August...

Unit/ Formation : Royal Marines Location : Sicily Period/ Conflict : World War II Year : 1943 Date/s : 20 July 1943 7th Battalion Royal...

16 July 1943 HMS Cleopatra 1941 HMS Cleopatra was hit amidships by a torpedo from an Italian submarine, she sustained major damage to...

Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM/ 41 Cdo RM Location : Augusta Harbour Period/ Conflict : World War II Year : 1943 Date/s : 17 July 1943 After...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Sicily Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 10 July 1943 The comparatively small...

A video of a Christmas Day Patrol by members of 47 Royal Marines Commando on the banks of the River Maas near Raamsdonk, Holland. Royal...

On the 8th June 1940, whilst on passage from Norway the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her two destroyer escorts, HMS Ardent...

Commando Men an Epic Mini Series by Si Biggs You asked for it, yes you did! A British Private Ryan and Band of Brothers (at last!)  Live,...

Sergeant Wilson E Troop was the last man from 45 Commando to be killed in action in WW2. Grave of Jock William Allan Wilson EX/4194 45...

Royal Marines served from the first day of WW2, in every theater and in almost every major sea engagement in the Second World War and...

Award Distinguished Service Order Capt. (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Hastings Tailyour, 27 Royal Marines Lt-Col. TAILYOUR took over...

TANK HUNTING by Capt.J.E.Stiebel, R.M. Extract from 40 Commando Royal Marines War Diary January 1943 World War II German Panther Tank...

Unit/ Formation: 116th Inf Bde RM Location: Hovington Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 14th February 1945 Patch 116th...

As I research names for my script about 45 CDO I snet out a request for help trying to get some more information on the names in this...