Royal Marines Commando and Special Boat Service
Photos of Royal Marines Commandos, SBS, and those who passed the All Arms Commando Course and were attached to them.
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40 Commando RM :Formed 14th February 1942 as The RM Commando, it was briefly known as "A" RM Commando before being designated 40 RM Commando. Served in Dieppe, St Benere, Termoli, Anzio. Comacchio during WW2. 40 RM was disbanded early in October 1945, before reforming as 40 Commando RM.when 44 RM was redesignated. Served in Palestine, Malaya, Cyprus, Suez, Brunei and Borneo and Ireland,the Falklands, Iraq, and Afghanistan
41 Commando RM : 41 Ind. Cdo. RM 1950-52 Korea. 41 Independent Commando formed up at Bickleigh in 1950 before deploying to the war in Korea, and returned to be disbanded there in 1952 ; 41 Cdo RM 1960-81 Northern Ireland, UN Forces Cyprus
42 Commando RM: 42 Commando Royal Marines have been based at Bickleigh Barracks just outside Plymouth, Devon, since 16/9/1971 . Formed August 1943. During WW2, the Commando served in India and Burma. 42 RM Cdo took part in the Battle of Kangaw - 31 January 1945. Redesignated 42 Commando RM early in 1946, having been 42 RM Commando (Light) since August 1945. Postwar, the Commando operated in the far East, with combat operations in Malaya, Suez, Borneo and Brunei, Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
43 Commando RM. Formed in August 1943 as 43RM Commando it was disbanded at the end of the war. It was re–formed on the 5th September 1961 at Plymouth and disbanded again at Eastney in 1968. In 2012 it was again re-formed and is officially titled 43 Commando Fleet Protection Group Royal Marines. It is the largest in the Corps and is responsible for protecting the nation’s nuclear deterrent as well as taking the fight to modern-day pirates in specialist boarding teams. [Historical note former units - Comacchio Company Royal Marines (1980–1983), Comacchio Group Royal Marines (1983–2001) and Fleet Protection Group Royal Marines (2001-2012)]
45 Commando RM : Formed as 45 RM Commando in August 1943. World War 2 operations included Normandy landings, Rhein, Weser, Aller and Elbe crossings. Redesignated 45 Commando RM in March 1946. The post-war years saw the Commando deployed on operations to Palestine, Suez, Malaya, Aden and Cyprus. The Commando finally returned to the UK in 1967 after 24 years operational service abroad and moved to its current base in Arbroath in 1971. Since then they have been deployed in Northern Ireland, and, in 1982, the Commando took part in Operation Corporate, the recapture of the Falkland Islands. In 1991 it deployed to Northern Iraq on a humanitarian assistance mission and in 1994 it was dispatched to reinforce the Kuwaiti border against renewed Iraqi aggression. More recently the Commando has been deployed in Afghanistan
Special Boat Service: Part of the United Kingdom's Special Forces, the Special Boat Service was originally the Special Boat Section when it was created during the Second World War.
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nb - Touch/click this link to view our WW2 RM Commando photos: RM Commandos during WW2
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Date: 25/11/2009
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Royal Marines Commando - In Remembrance
The Fallen since the end of WW2
Date: 27/11/2009
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Photos of 40 Commando RM
Date: 17/06/2015
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Photos of 41 Independent Commando and 41 Commando RM
Date: 17/06/2015
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Photos of 42 Commando RM
Date: 17/06/2015
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Photos of 43 Commando RM
Date: 17/06/2015
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Photos of 45 Commando RM
Date: 17/06/2015
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Photos of the Hong Kong Landing Craft Squadron 1949
Date: 17/06/2015
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Dennis Leolin Samuel St Maur Aldridge MBE MC and bar , and the US Silver Star
Open for more. Photo courtesy of John Roberston
Date: 02/08/2009
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Captain George Leonard 'Percy' Bream BEM MBE RM
Photos of Percy and others from his time in the RM Commandos. Photos and information courtesy of his daughter Sue Thatcher
Date: 15/07/2012
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Edward Casey, 45 and 42 Commando RM 1960s
Photos courtesy of June Casey.
Date: 05/02/2013
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Thomas Crosbie in Xylotymbou, Cyprus 1949
Photo courtesy of Thomas Crosbie aka Bing who served with 40 Commando RM and the SBS
Date: 18/03/2015
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QMS George 'Jock' Donnelly
45 & 43 Commando RM. Photo, taken at Serangoon, Singapore, circa 1965, courtesy of his son David Donnelly.
Date: 19/01/2015
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Marine Ernest Edward Eves and others
Several photos covering the period he was with 41 Independent Cdo 1951 and 42 Commando RM 1952. Courtesy of his son Glenn.
Date: 23/05/2013
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A Royal Marine of 3 Commando Brigade helps another to apply camouflage face paint in preparation for the San Carlos landings on
Photo © Crown copyright. IWM (FKD 178)
Date: 23/06/2017
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Colonel Alan George Ferguson-Warren CBE, DSC, Royal Marines
Officer Commanding 42 Commando RM 23/6/47 - 27/1/48. Photo courtesy of The Ferguson Warren Society
Date: 20/12/2012
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Prince Phillip and RSM George Forster, Corps' RSM and SBS
Photo courtesy of Thomas 'Bing' Crosbie
Date: 14/04/2005
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Alex McFarlane
40, 41, and 45 Commando, RM. Photos courtesy of Alex McFarlane
Date: 17/06/2015
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Unknown from 45 Commando 'B' troop nr. Dhala, Aden, circa 1961
Photo from the collection of Edward Casey 45 and 42 Commando RM. Courtesy of his daughter June Casey .
Date: 08/01/2013
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Greg McKenzie 45 Cdo as a Covert Commando Iraq 2006
Photo courtesy of Greg McKenzie
Date: 04/11/2006
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Thomas Crosbie on the right, and another, at the Lympstone memorial
Photo courtesy of Thomas 'Bing' Crosbie
Date: 02/10/2009
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Thomas Crosbie (ex SBS) and others
Photo courtesy of Thomas 'Bing' Crosbie
Date: 27/01/2010
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Bing Crosbie with the Lord Mayor of Perth
Photo courtesy of Thomas 'Bing' Crosbie
Date: 03/02/2015
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Alderney Press cutting re loss of HMS Affray
Photo courtesy of Thomas 'Bing' Crosbie, 40 Cdo RM and SBS.
Date: 18/03/2015
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Lighting candles in memory of the lost on HMS Affray
Photo courtesy of Thomas 'Bing' Crosbie
Date: 18/03/2015
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Ex-SBS commemorating the loss of HMS Affray
Photo courtesy of Thomas 'Bing' Crosbie
Date: 15/04/2012
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Thomas Crosbie on the commemorative bench for HMS Affray
Photo courtesy of Thomas 'Bing' Crosbie
Date: 15/04/2012
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Tom Crosbie, Sandy Macvicar, and Syd Bostock, SNCO’s Mess in Lympstone
Photo courtesy of Thomas 'Bing' Crosbie
Date: 29/07/2008
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Liverpool RMA visiting the Museum at Eastney 2011
Photo courtesy of Thomas 'Bing' Crosbie
Date: 14/05/2011
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Graspan Parade, The Mall, 2013
Photo courtesy of Thomas 'Bing' Crosbie
Date: 12/05/2013
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Major General Julian Thompson CB OBE and members of the City of London branch of the RMA
The moat and poppies at the Tower of London 26th October 2014. Photo courtesy of Thomas 'Bing' Crosbie
Date: 18/03/2015
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