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Royal Marines' Cemetery - San Juan Island National Historical Park

The Royal Marines who died during the joint occupation of San Juan Island with the USMC rest in honor here. Jim Crook was one year old...

HMS Mount Stewart and the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment

This secret unit specialising in irregular warfare consisted of servicemen from the Navy, Royal Marines and Army under the command of...

Amphibious Raids against the Turkish Guns

Royal Marines acted as landing parties in the Naval campaign against the Turkish fortifications in the Dardanelles before the Gallipoli...

February Marines

This month I have been concentrating on the Royal Marines Roll of Honour data base, so many entries are just names with no details, and...

Battle of El Teb

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Sudan Period/ Conflict: Sudanese War Year: 1884 Date/s: 29 February 1884 On the 21st, the force...

'the Birken'ead drill is a damn tough bullet to chew'

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: South Africa Period/ Conflict: 1800's Year: 1852 Date/s: 26 February 1852 Royal Marines were...

Col. Harold Ozanne DSO RMLI

Harold Ozanne was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry in 1897 1897 to 1914 - Mediterranean, Pacific, West Indies Harold...

5th R.M. A.A. (Anti-Aircraft) Brigade - NW Europe

North West Europe: August 1944 – May 1945 At the end of August, the move to the Continent began when on 28th August the Regiment went to...

SS Motagua Collision

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Irish Coast Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 19th March 1918 SS Motagua armed...

Raid on Deception Island

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Deception Island, Antarctica Period/ Conflict: Year: 1953 Date/s: 15th February 1953 HMS Snipe...

His Majesty King George V Colonel in Chief of the Royal Marines

On 2nd January, HRH the Duke of York, now His Majesty King George V, was made Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Marine Forces, in 1901 the...

40 Cdo in Haifa - Palestine Mandate and the withdrawal of British troops - January to June, 1948

Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Haifa Period/ Conflict: Palestine Mandate Year: 1948 Date/s: 30th January - 30th June 1948 Royal...

HM Queen Victoria's Body Escorted from Osborne House - Royal Marines Guard

On the evening of 22nd January HM Queen Victoria died at Osborne, Isle of Wight, and for a time the world seemed to stand still; it was...

Crossing the Garigliano River - 40 CDO Royal Marines

Force 2. (A.P. and X troops). [40 CDO RM War Diary] The day of 17th January was spent in the lying up area until 2015 hrs when the area...

Formation of 117th Infantry Brigade Royal Marines

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: UK Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 15th January - July 1945 The 117th Infantry...

Operations in the Transkei

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Transkei Period/ Conflict: The Frontier Wars Year: 1878 Date/s: 13th January 1878 “After...

Capture of Fort Trincomalee by surprise

Unit/ Formation: His Majesty's Marine Forces Location: Sri Lanka Period/ Conflict: Fourth Anglo Dutch War Year: 1782 Date/s: 5 January...

Royal Marines Engineer Commando - Burma

Extract from ADM 202/30 re No 1 (RM) Engineer Commando 3 Troop RM Engineer Commando Report on Operations at AKYAB, MYEBON & KANGAW Period...

Sinking of HMS Formidable - 86 RMs lost

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: English Channel Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 1st January 1915 HMS Formidable was...

The RM Engineer Commando

The Royal Marine Engineers were part the Royal Marine Division raised in 1940. They were originally designated 18 Battalion (Mobile) RM...

Landing in Akabah

HMS Minerva log 31 December 1914 Akabah Lat 29.5, Long 35.0 5.00am: Course & speed as requisite approaching Akaba & anchoring at head of...

Across the world in 2022 with the Royal Marines

Due to a technical c#ck up I am unable to access my usual mail service and so if you are receiving this blog you will see last months...

World War I (1914 - 1918/19)

Amphibious Raids against the Turkish Guns

Royal Marines acted as landing parties in the Naval campaign against the Turkish fortifications in the Dardanelles before the Gallipoli...

Col. Harold Ozanne DSO RMLI

Harold Ozanne was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry in 1897 1897 to 1914 - Mediterranean, Pacific, West Indies Harold...

SS Motagua Collision

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Irish Coast Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 19th March 1918 SS Motagua armed...

Sinking of HMS Formidable - 86 RMs lost

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: English Channel Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 1st January 1915 HMS Formidable was...

Landing in Akabah

HMS Minerva log 31 December 1914 Akabah Lat 29.5, Long 35.0 5.00am: Course & speed as requisite approaching Akaba & anchoring at head of...

Shore Party during the Greek Intervention

In August 1916, a pro-Allied group launched a coup against the monarchy in the Noemvriana, which the Allies sought to support. HMS...

Lt Colonel Norman Ormsby Burge

When the First World War broke out, Burge volunteered for active service. He was put in command of one of the Portsmouth Battalion...

Aloysius Stanbridge - three wars & three monarchs

Aloysius Stanbridge took part in three wars, the Boer War, 3rd China War (Boxer Rebellion and the Great War) and served under three...

Destruction under gunfire of Pegasus in Zanzibar Harbour

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Zanzibar Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 20th September 1914 H.M.S. Pegasus was...

Loss of the 'Live Bait' Squadron

Tuesday, 22 September 1914 SINKING OF CRUISERS ABOUKIR, HOGUE, CRESSY OF DUTCH COAST by U.9 They were known as the “Live Bait” Squadron,...

Churchills “Flying Column” Royal Marines

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 19 September 1914 On 2 August, the...

British, US & French Marines Storm the 'Askold' in Murmansk

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Murmansk, Kola Bay Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 12 July 1918 In Murmansk...

Lancashire Landing Cemetery

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: Gallipoli peninsula Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: April 1915 - January 1916 84...

Major Frederick William Lumsden RMA - VC

Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 4 April 1917 Brigadier General...

Royal Marines Stopping the Fins in Russia

HMS Glory was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia,...

Captain James Maynard - 50 years of Service

Captain James Maynard This information and life time achievements were found by chance during a house sale and are an astonishing...

Operations on the River Ancre

2nd February 1917 Operations on the River Ancre by 63rd (RN) Division The capture of Puisieux Trench. After a short spell out of the...

Sinking of HMS Viknor

Unit/ Formation: Memorial Location: West Coast of Ireland Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 13th January 1915 RMS Atrato...

Royal Marines Light Infantry - The Battle of the Ancre (Battles of the Somme 1916)

Unit/ Formation: RMLI Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1916 Date/s: 13th to 15th November 1916 (1RM: 127 killed; 2RM...

The Unknown Warrior Story - The Bands of HM Royal Marines

The Unknown Warrior, performed in the Royal Albert Hall for the Mountbatten Festival of Music 2021 by the Massed Bands of Her Majesty's...

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