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25 unusual facts about Royal Marines


ABCA Armies

ABCA Armies (formally, the American, British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Armies' Program) is a program aimed at optimizing interoperability and standardization of training and equipment between the armies of the United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, plus the United States Marine Corps and the Royal Marines.

Bagdad, Tasmania

The town was named by the explorer Hugh Germain, a private in the Royal Marines.

Barra Head

The project involved multi-organisation co-operation and included Halmatic themselves, HM Coastguard and the Royal Marines Amphibious Trials and Testing Unit.

David F. Bice

General Bice also served as an exchange officer with the Royal Marines (RM) and is a graduate of the Royal Marines Commando Course.

Douvres-la-Délivrande

On 17 June, a massive offensive by the British 41 Commando, Royal Marines - preceded by an artillery bombardment and supported by mine-clearing and anti-bunker tanks of 79th Armoured Division - secured the surrender of the garrison.

Fraser Canyon Gold Rush

Its potential to provoke United States annexation ambitions within the goldfields, prompted the governor to send newly appointed Chief Justice Begbie, the colony's chief of police Chartres Brew and a contingent of Royal Engineers and Royal Marines to intervene.

Henry Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington

Both No 2 and No 41 Commando Royal Marines were engaged at the Salerno landings.

Hiram's Highway

It earned its name from its reconstruction of a Japanese track in the immediate post Second World War years by the Royal Marines.

History of Yemen

The Royal Marines, who had been the first British troops to occupy Aden in 1839, were the last to leave.

John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk

Howard was the third (but second surviving) son of Capt. Philip Howard of the Royal Marines, grandson of Philip Howard.

John Socman

Lloyd, who had suffered shellshock while serving in the Royal Marines during the Second World War, had a breakdown after writing John Socman, and abandoned composition for twenty years.

Nepean River

Charles Darwin also wrote of people (Aborigines) at Emu Ford, commenting on their skill with spears, while Watkin Tench of the Royal Marines also noted their use of spears, lines and nets to capture fish.

Norton Manor Camp

With easy access to the ideal combined training territory contained within the Blackdown and Quantock Hills, as well as the Somerset Levels, from 1983 the camp has been home to 40 Commando, Royal Marines.

Norval Marley

Norval later claimed to have been a captain in the Royal Marines.

Paddy Hirsch

Before becoming a journalist, he served as an officer in the Royal Marines from 1986 to 1995.

Paul X. Kelley

From September 1960 to May 1961, he was the U.S. Marine Corps Exchange Officer with the British Royal Marines, becoming one of the few foreigners to earn the Royal Marines Commandos' coveted green beret.

Peacock-class corvette

For these roles each vessel could carry two Avon Searider SR5M Rigid-hulled inflatable boats and a small detachment of Royal Marines.

Perfect Weapon

It features the 2 hosts: ex-Royal Marine Monty Halls and archaeologist and medieval weapons expert Stuart Prior choosing a weapon for the current episode's category.

PULHHEEMS

Conversely the Royal Navy, which includes the Royal Marines, makes no distinction between postings at sea or on land.

Radlett murder

His killer was John Thurtell (1794–1824), a sports promoter, amateur boxer, a former Royal Marine officer and a son of the mayor of Norwich.

Robert Harward

His forces included all the assets in the Naval Special Warfare inventory as well as forces from the Polish GROM, the United Kingdom Royal Marines and the Kuwaiti Navy.

Roland Warpole Loane

In 1927, he returned to Europe and was married in Ireland in 1828 to Mary Lee, daughter of a colonel of the Royal Marines.

Second China War Medal

The medals are named in indented Roman capitals for the Army, while members of the Royal Marines and Royal Navy were usually issued with unnamed medals.

William Joseph Rainbow

His father was a Warrant Officer in the Royal Marines, so his education was in a number of those port towns and in Edinburgh.

Yoxter

In 1964 the Royal Anglian Regiment renovated the camp and it has been in use by the Regular Army, Royal Marines, TA and the Army Cadet Force ever since.


Air assault

On November 5, 1956 the Royal Marines' 45 Commando performed the world's first combat helicopter insertion with air assault during an amphibious landing as part of Operation Musketeer, in Suez, Egypt.

Britain's 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines are also highly experienced in air assault, both for boarding ships and in land attacks, see article above.

Cromwell tank

This is the only version of the Centaur known to have seen combat, in service with the Royal Marines Armoured Support Group.

Deal barracks bombing

The Deal barracks bombing was an attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) on a Royal Marines barracks in Deal, England.

Fort Gadsden

In August 1814, a force of over 100 officers and men led by a lieutenant colonel of Royal Marines, Edward Nicolls, was sent into the Apalachicola River region in Spanish Florida, where they began to aid and train local Indians.

Frank Pegram

Also, Pegram took the Glasgow into Namsos and landed a detachment of Royal Marines to block enemy troops until the main British forces arrived, during the Namsos Campaign.

Joan Gamper

On 24 June 1925, FC Barcelona fans jeered the Spanish national anthem and then applauded God Save the Queen performed by a visiting British Royal Marine band.

John Burnett, Baron Burnett

He was a commando with the Royal Marines for seven years, a cattle-breeder, and remains a solicitor specialising in tax matters.

Jubilee Peak

The team that carried out the first ascent was composed of Commander John Highton, Royal Navy (Leader), Captain Chris Hurran, Royal Engineers, and Lieutenant Mike Wimpenny, Royal Marines.

Mohd Sutarji Bin Kasmin

He has also attended the counter-terrorism special courses in the US Navy SEALs BUD Training Centre (1977), Royal Marines Special Boat Service (1984) and Special Air Service in 1984.

Monty Halls

With his background as an ex-Marine Halls was deeply moved when his close friend and best man, Major Jason Ward RM was killed in a helicopter crash on 21 March 2003, the second day of the Iraq War (Operation Telic).

Moosa Ali Jaleel

The only Maldivian to undertake the UK Royal Marines All Arms Commando Course, as such he's entitled to wear the Commando badge of UK Royal Marines which is one of the world's most elite fighting forces.

Mountain Leader

The conduct of warfare in high altitude or arctic environments in the British Armed Forces is the province of 3 Commando Brigade, a formation of the Royal Marines with a number of attached army elements.

No. 30 Commando

In September 1942, the Director of Naval Intelligence authorised the formation of the Special Intelligence Unit, composed of 33 (Royal Marines) Troop, 34 (Army) Troop, 35 (Royal Air Force) Troop and 36 (Royal Navy) Troop.

Norman Jewell

As part of the ruse, the corpse of a vagrant named Glyndwr Michael was dressed as a Royal Marines officer and briefcase, stuffed with dummy secret papers, chained to its wrist.

Old Point Comfort

The lighthouse was captured by the British during the War of 1812, when the Jack Tars and Royal Marines sailed into the Chesapeake.

Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre

Educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he attained the rank of Colonel in the Royal Marines in 1945, following which he embarked upon a political career.

Royal Marines Museum

The Royal Marines Museum is located in Eastney (Portsmouth), England, and is open to the public throughout the year.

Second-in-command

The second-in-command (2i/c or 2IC) is the deputy commander of any British Army or Royal Marines unit, from battalion or regiment downwards.

Special Forces Support Group

The SFSG was initially composed of personnel from the British Army's Parachute Regiment, the Royal Marines and the RAF Regiment, but is now open to all personnel in the United Kingdom's Armed Forces that have passed either P company run by the Parachute Regiment or the Royal Marines Commando Course.

United Nations Security Council

The UN mission in the 1991–2002 Sierra Leone Civil War was supplemented by British Royal Marines, and the UN-authorised 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was overseen by NATO.

William Delacombe

Delacombe was born in Georgetown, Ascension Island, and was probably the son of Captain William Addis Delacombe of the Royal Marines, who took command at San Juan Island in 1867 and had new quarters built for his family there.