James Moulton was appointed GSO3 in the operations section of the General Headquarters, British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium, 9/1939-6/1940 and was involved in the evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940. Frustrated by the lack of Naval liaison and coordination on the beach he hitched a ride from the Dunkirk beach to Dover in a sloop to brief Admiral Ramsey on the situation on the beach including the selected embarkation points before returning to France and rejoining the HQ

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Ireland Period/ Conflict: Anglo-Irish War Year: 1921 Date/s: 15 May 1921 2 Royal Marine Artillery gunners abducted, shot dead and dumped in a local quarry. Apparently a "shoot at sight" order had been given to the IRA in Cork on 14 May. There were 7 British Soldiers killed that day. The 2 marines may have been on duty at East Ferry, 3 miles from Ballinacurra. Gunner Bernard Francis RMA/14710 Gunner William Parker RMA/14560 I Image RM H

Unit/ Formation: His Majesty's Marine Forces Location: Africa Period/ Conflict: Seven Years' War Year: 1758 Date/s: 2 May 1758 A small British squadron under the Command of Captain Henry Marsh sailed from Plymouth, despatched against the French settlements in West Africa. The settlement of Saint-Louis in 1780 On Sunday 30th April Marsh landed 700 Marines, and a detachment of 25 Artillerymen with 10 guns and 8 mortars under Captain Walker to attack Fort Louis. A French deputat

Unit/ Formation : Royal Marines Location : Bukit Timah, Singapore Period/ Conflict : World War II Year : 1942 Date/s : 8 February 1942 The last British troops to cross the causeway which links Johore with the island of Singapore were the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Lieutenant-Colonel I. M. Stewart, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.). They came over with their pipes playing "Hieland Lassie" and blew up the causeway behind them. Their strength had been reduced to 250, and the mar

A painting commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee and d epictin g Roy al Marine AA Gunners bring down a V1 Flying-bomb is described on the IWM site as ' Four marines take cover in a ditch as a flying-bomb, trailing smoke, plummets to earth' But the painting provides only a small hint of the Royal Marines involvement in the V1 and V2 story. The V-1 was the first of the Vergeltungswaffen (V-weapons) deployed for the terror bombing of London. German V1 (Fiesler Fi

happy 250th Birthday to our 'Brothers' The United States Marine Corps The official birthday of the United States Marine Corps is on 10 November 1775, the day the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Marines with the following decree: That two battalions of Marines be raised consisting of one Colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, two majors and other officers, as usual in other regiments; that they consist of an equal number of privates as with other battalions,

Found after 107 years and d ubbed ‘the last scout’ because she was out looking for German warships ahead of the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet she was torpedoed and sunk sunk by German submarine U-52 on 19 August 1916, with the loss of 38 hands, including the loss of 1 Royal Marine. Sergeant William Edward Patrick Daley Royal Marines Light Infantry (RMLI). Captain Miller of HMS Nottingham reported: “She was struck by two torpedoes, fired from a submarine, on her port side, the firs

With 45 Pins for October, whether in peace or war, since its formation it has always been a busy month for the Marines! 28th October 1664, on a cold wet Friday, after a bit of lunch, The Royal Marines were established, by King Charles II as 'The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot In 1674, 10 years after its formation at the Battle of Entzheim near Strasburg in France. It was reported that the steadiness and accuracy of the Marines fire saved their French alli

17th October 1855 The Battle of Kinburn , a combined land-naval engagement during the final stage of the Crimean War, took place on the...

1st October 1841 The second capture of Chusan occurred on 1 October 1841 during the First Opium War when British forces captured the...

The War Graves Data base is a live document with 11,442 names and growing, in many cases I have been able to update dates of death and...

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

On 23rd August 1854, having cautiously brought his ship HMS Miranda down river and setting it “within point blank range of the city’s...

Lieutenant-General Sir Robin Ross, KCB, OBE, died 29 July, 2025. He was 85. Ross was a dynamic Royal Marine who led British humanitarian...

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

U nit/ Formation : Royal Marines Location : Muizenberg Period/ Conflict : 1700's Year : 1795 Date/s : 7 August 1795 This was a...

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

Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: Second Anglo Dutch War Year: 1667 Date/s: 2 July 1667 Before...

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

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...

Saturday 26th February 1780. The following appeared in the Ipswich Journal, this newspaper had a wide circulation in Suffolk and Essex. A...