Gallipoli - 28 April 1915 Marines were involved in both the initial, unopposed, landings on the peninsula and the subsequent amphibious...

Bombing Berlin BBC correspondent Stephen Evans tells the story of Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's 1943 report recorded aboard a Lancaster Bomber...

Lieutenant-Colonel "Pug" Davis (1923 - 2011 aged 87), was the founding father of the Special Boat Service, and won a DSC for a daring...

The Royal Marines - A Geo History 1664 to Present The Globe & Laurel March/April 2018 by Simon Biggs Even before I was a young Marine in...

Throughout the Second World War, LCAs were used for landing Allied forces in almost every Commando operation, major and minor, in the European theatre. They also saw service in North Africa and the Indian Ocean. The first four LCAs used in an opposed landing disembarked 120 French Foreign Legionnaires of the 13th Demi-Brigade (13e DBLE) on the beach at Bjerkvik, 8 miles (13 km) above Narvik, on 13 May during the Norwegian Campaign, perhaps the last operational use of LCAs by

The U boat war was now entering a critical phase. Just as more and more men and munitions were leaving America and Canada to join the...

Burma Star Association The Circumstances of the War in Burma The war in the Far East started in December 1941, simultaneously with the...

The Royal Marines A Geo History 1664 to Present This page is a work in progress as I try to code it, please check back regularly. In the...

The Battle of Port-en-Bessin also known as Operation Auberytook place from 7–8 June 1944, at a small fishing harbour west of Arromanches...

On the night of 8th – 9th April 1945 eighteen men from the Special Boat Service set out across Lake Comacchio to attack heavily defended...

Colour Sergeant Charlie Bowden, who died aged 94 2011, was a Royal Marines gunner who survived being shot at by both the enemy and his...

The Battle of the River Plate took place on December 13th 1939. The battle in the South Atlantic was the first major naval battle of...

Ajax, Ontario, Canada was named after HMS Ajax after the Battle of the River Plate and the streets are named after every member of the...

At 7.17 pm on December 7, 1942, His Majesty’s Submarine Tuna surfaced off the coast of Occupied France near the mouth of the River...

The last surviving British member of the Dambusters raid has been presented with an MBE after a campaign for him to be honoured. Sq Ldr...

Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Baseden MBE; Legion of Honour; the Resistance Medal and the Croix de Guerre avec Palme, (20 January 1922 – 28...

The day of waiting and discomfort was over. The British Eighth Army – including Australian, New Zealand, South African, Indian, Polish...

Le Chemin de la Liberte (The French Freedom Trail) After the German offensive in May 1940 and the division of France into two parts - an...

In Stalingrad Soviet forces were obstinately refusing to budge from their defended positions on the ever diminishing sliver of land they...

The RMS Queen Mary was used as a troopship throughout World War II and usually crossed the Atlantic without an escort, relying on her...