21st July 1944 Normandy HM LCM, 601st Flotilla. Attempting to cross the Channel from the Normandy Beaches the flotilla of small Mark 1...

The Battle of Calabria Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Mediterranean Sea Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 9th July...

Capt R.M. Winter commanded 4 Bty, 2nd R.M. Aroured Support Regiment. Landing on D Day in a Sherman Command Tank. A Journey Through War:...

The attack on Mers-el-Kébir (Battle of Mers-el-Kébir) on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on neutral...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 3 July 1940 In 1940, Surcouf was...

Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 On the afternoon of the 5th...

News was now received that the Brigade was to come under command of the Sixth Airborne Division, and that the 5th Parachute Brigade had...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 D Day was the largest single commitment of Royal Marines in history, with over 17,500 RM taking part. As well as providing 2,500 Marines forming 5 out of the 8 Commando units involved in Operation Overlord Royal Marines took part in many other roles including manning the guns of the battleships providing bombardment, crewing landing craft, crewing tanks, as pilots and

D Day- Gold Beach Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 The first...

Combined Ops Signals Officer Charles Armstrong: (Continued from Embarking 47 Cdo at Southampton) We knew exactly where we were going, for...

No. 48 (Royal Marine) Commando was formed in March 1944 and was the last commando unit formed during the Second World War. It was formed by the conversion of the 7th Royal Marine Battalion and the Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisations (MNBDOs) defence battalions to commando duties. Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel James Moulton, it carried out a shortened commando course at Achnacarry and then joined the all Royal Marine 4th Special Service Brigade alongside No. 41,

Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Atlantic Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 27th May 1941 The last battle of the...

Unit/ Formation: Barracks/ Camps Location: Skegness Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 21 February 1942 HMS Royal Arthur ...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Iceland Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 10 May 1940 The invasion of Iceland, codenamed Operation Fork, was a British military operation conducted by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines during World War II to occupy and deny Iceland to Germany. On 28 April 1940, Winston Churchill, then the First Lord of the Admiralty, had initiated planning to establish a British presence on Iceland. With Denmark under Nazi occupation, t

Unit/ Formation: Combined Ops Location: Madagascar Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 5 May 1942 Allied commanders...

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

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

Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Bergan Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: Date/s: 10 April 1940 Captain R.T. Partridge, Royal...

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...