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The next RMHS webinar is at 7pm on WEDNESDAY 17 JUNE and will be Lt Col (retd) Alastair Grant RM talking about the Royal Marines in Russia 1919. It is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC...
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Royal Marines, To Your Duties... Quick March!

👏 Please join us in congratulating The King's Squad 350 Troop who passed out today at Commando Training Centre Royal Marines.

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In the build up to D Day, 30AU were equipped with an extensive range of vehicles. Some seen here at Littlehampton
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#RoyalMarines tested the defences of newest NATO member, Sweden. In the strategically important Gothenburg Archipelago, Commandos trained with Swedish counterparts before the two allies went head-to-head in a test of mettle.

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Men of 6th Commando fire their weapons from HMS Prince Charles during training ahead of raids on Vaagso and Maaloy, Norway, 1941.

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RM Troop photos, May 1944. These men would be landing in France within weeks.
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Once in Egypt, the Spaniards were transferred to be the first members of the newly formed Middle East Commandos. By October 1940, the 63 Spaniards made up a Troop in No. 50 Middle East Commando. 4/

Al Murray - DKMS.ORG.UK 🇺🇦 RM Historical Society Damien Lewis Andy Chatterton A great deal of commando training followed. Mist of this was in the area of the Bitter & Sweet Lakes S of Suez where the Combined Training Centre ME was established. The Spaniards excelled. 5/

Al Murray - DKMS.ORG.UK 🇺🇦 RM Historical Society Damien Lewis Andy Chatterton After being prepared for some operations, No 50 ME Commando was sent to Crete in Nov 1940 to support & be on standby for operations. Upon its return in Mar 1941, it was merged with No 52 ME Commando to make D Bn Layforce under Bob Laycock. 6/ #ContinuingtheFight

1/2 I read Eyewitness Falklands by BBC radio reporter Robert Fox in 82 & recently. Very easy to read. He sailed on Canberra & was at many places on the Island, inc Goose Green. He did 2 day yomp with 45 Commando RM Teal Inlet to Bluff Cove Peak. My photos Royal Marines FalklandsinUK

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3 June 1982 Robert Fox leaving Teal Inlet with 45 Commando RM and other journalists Max Hastings, Ian Bruce (Glasgow Herald) and Charles Laurence (Telegraph).

📰 Another great read from the @globenlaurel

On 9 October 2023, 47 Cdo RG RM deployed its operational Boat Group to join the LRG (South) Task Group, having been activated at very short notice to respond to an emerging Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) crisis in No ...

Best of luck to the RN team tomorrow against 'Tharmy'. Hoping all RM players have a Hoofin game and that those attending have an equally Hoofin day out. Come on Royal

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Simon Foggs video on the history of Dalditch Training camp

#OTD 1944 - 30 AU officially come under the command of ANCXF.
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Superb talk today for RMHS on 46 (RM) Commando during the Normandy Campaign by Lt Col (retd) Eddie Parks

The RMHS West Country Chapter session on D-Day is underway at the GMC in Lympstone. Great display of RM/D-Day history

To enable them to operate unhindered by any military authorities and 'job's-worth's', 30 AU officers were issued with special passes.
They didn't always work...at 1st anyway...
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