On Easter Sunday 1943 (25 April), gale force winds and wild seas were lashing at the coast. Close to land, among the giant breakers and...

Unit/ Formation : Royal Marines Location : Faroe Islands Period/ Conflict : World War II Year : 1940 Date/s : 13th April 1940 Occupation...

After the raid on Colombo by the Japanese aircraft carriers on 5 April, known as the Easter Sunday Raid, Hermes and Vampire were sent to...

On 2 April, Cornwall and her half sister, Dorsetshire , were detached from the fleet, Dorsetshire to resume an interrupted refit and Cornwall to escort convoy SU-4 (composed of the U.S. Army transport USAT Willard A. Holbrook and Australian transport MV Duntroon ) to Australia and the aircraft carrier Hermes to Trincomalee in Ceylon for repairs “Sinking of HMS Cornwall at The Battle of the Indian Ocean” by Hishiro Kobayakawa 1942 On 4 April, the Japanese fleet was spotte

Seafire Mk.IIC, MB218/S-A, pilot Major AJ. Wright, RM, No. 809 NAS, HMS Unicorn, September 1943. MB218 was produced by Supermarine. It...

Belgrade War Cemetery was created to receive the remains of British and Commonwealth casualties brought in from more than sixty small...

Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Yugoslavia Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 22 March 1944 On the 22nd – 23rd March...

Corporal George Ernest Tandy Ch. X 110723 was 19 years old when as a crewman on LCA 786 he swung down from the davits of Landing Ship...

Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: The Netherlands Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 12 March - 7 April 1945 On the 12...

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Indian Ocean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 12th February 1944 On 5 February 1944...

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Off Anzio Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 29th January 1944 Loss of AA Cruiser HMS...

The Battle of Boulogne in 1940 was the defence of the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer by French, British and Belgian troops during the Battle of...

Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 22 January 1944 The Battle of Anzio was a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that took place from January 22, 1944 (beginning with the Allied amphibious landing known as Operation Shingle) to June 5, 1944 (ending with the capture of Rome). The operation was opposed by German forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno. Allied forces consisted of 5 cruisers, 24 destroyers, 238

On the 14th January 1945 45 Commando under Command of Brigadier D Mills-Roberts DSO MC Irish Guards embarked at Tilbury Docks for...

During the Battle of the River Plate 15 Marines lost their lives mostly manning turrets, HMS Exeter 10 Marines killed, HMS Ajax 5 Marines killed. Historical background Since the war started, a German battleship, the Graf Spee, had been roaming the South Atlantic sinking unarmed British merchant ships. She was being hunted by several British hunting groups, and was found by the three British cruisers, Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles on 13th December 1939, and then began the Battle

Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Malaysia Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 10 December 1941 The British BattleShips HMS Prince of Wales and Battlrcruiser HMS Repulse were the central elements of Force Z, tasked with intercepting a Japanese invasion fleet. The objective of Force Z, which consisted of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales, the Battlecruiser HMS Repulse and four destroyers, was to intercept the Japanese invasion fleet in the South China Sea nort

Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Pelagosa Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 5th December 1943 40 R.M. COMMANDO REPORT...

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Mediterranean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 25th November 1941 1941 Loss of...

17 November 1942 / 20 November 1942 On 17 November 1942 a convoy of 4 merchants (MW-13) left Alexandria for Malta. This convoy was...

Unit/ Formation: 30 Cdo Location: Cheragas Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 9th November 1942 The IAU ‘Special...