Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Port Said Period/ Conflict: Suez Crisis Year: 1956 Date/s: 6th November 1956 At dawn on 6 November...

Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Egypt Period/ Conflict: Suez Crisis Year: 1956 Date/s: 5 November 1956 Operation Musketeer (French:...

Haddock Troop, was a contingent of Royal Marines on 'special assignment', led by Captain Arnold Bell it consisted of two sergeants, four...

Unit/ Formation: 48 Cdo RM Location: Serooskerke Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 8 November 1944 A patrol from 48RM...

Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Walcheren Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 7 November 1944 Two Nebelwerfer north of...

Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Walcheren Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 5 November 1944 W18 was situated in the...

Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: Dishoek, Walcheren Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 2 - 3 November 1944 The...

Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Westkapelle Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 1 November 1944 The three RM...

Unit/ Formation: 48 Cdo RM Location: Westkapelle Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 1 November 1944 On 1 November No 48...

Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 27 September 1944 After relief by 7...

Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Lake Commachio Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 02 April 1945 It was shortly before...

Location: Sembawang, Singapore Period/ Conflict: 1960's Year: 1968 Date/s: 12th August 1968 Almost co-inciding with the Commando Carriers...

Unit/ Formation: Barracks/ Camps Location: Great Britian Period/ Conflict: 1900's Year: 1960 Date/s: 1960 The training of commandos after...

Trevor Philpott - died unexpectedly but peacefully at home in South Shields on Saturday 8th July 2023. Trevor grew up in the Tavistock...

James Louis Moulton was born on 3 June 1906, the son of J. D. Moulton. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Barnet, and...

Colonel Douglas Burns Drysdale was born in Hampstead, a suburb of London, on 2 October 1916. He spent the majority of his youth in...

The Korean War began on June 25,1950 when the Northern Korean People’s Army, backed by the Soviet Union, launched a military operation to...

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...