nit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 1st August 1943 43 Commando was formed on 1st August 1943 after the decision was made to convert the battalions of the Royal Marine Division into commando units. Lt.Gen.Hunton chatting to, and inspecting, members of 43 Commando who have just returned from a 7-mile speed march, completed in 60 minutes The initial intake of personnel was drawn from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Marines, and follo

Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Great Britian Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 1st August 1943 45 RM Commando was...

Article from the Royal Marines Charity; Visiting Jim Wren, 100-year-old veteran The Royal Marines Association were lucky enough to secure...

Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: July 1943 Of the hundreds of landing craft sent against the beaches of Normandy on D Day, a t least two-thirds of the great fleet of L.C.A. that carried the assault waves of infantry to the beaches were manned by Marines, there were also Flotillas landing US Troops on Utah beaches, including RM crewed craft supporting the Rangers at Point de Hoc with fire support. A

Operation Rimau was an attack on Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour, carried out by an Allied commando unit Z Special Unit, during...

Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Pointe Du Hoc Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6th June 1944 East of Utah...

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...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: 24th May 1940 Calais – Friday 24 to...

HMS Gloucester was one of the second batch of three Town-classlight cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the late 1930s. Transferred...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Bardufoss Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1940 Date/s: April - June 1940 During World War...

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Trincomalee Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1948 Date/s: April 1948 Trincomalee is a seaport on the north-eastern coast of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and was formerly a naval station. After the fall of Singapore it became a naval base of importance to our command of shipping in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. The cemetery was originally the Combined Services Cemetery, but was taken over by the Admiralty from the military authorities

Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Santorini Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 22nd April 1944 Just after midnight on April...

Unit/ Formation: 48 Cdo RM Location: Beisbosch Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: April 1945 Major 'Pat' Wall 48RM Cdo and...

By Colin E Bowden Charles Henry Bowden or as he was better known - 'Charlie' Bowden, not that the rank and file would have addressed him...

Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 9 April 1945 Hunter was 21 years old,...

Unit/ Formation: Combined Ops Location: Lofoten Islands Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 4th March 1941 Operation...

Royal Navy and Royal Marines Close Combat training film. As Shakespeare says 'be bloody, bold and resolute' Sorry 'Jack!' Watch here:...

Unit/ Formation: Combined Ops Location: Norway Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 1940 - 1943 When they learnt that the...

Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Naples Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 18 February 1944 HMS Penelope was an...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Burma Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: February - March 1942 Force 'Viper' 106...