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Royal Marines Cap Badge
This Sale is for the Cap Badge as worn by the other ranks of the Royal Marines. Brand new and unissued staybrite anodised Cap Badge in an all Gold finish, complete with it's mounted lug's and Brass split pin. NSN: 8455-99-416-5493 DESC: Insignia, Organisational. Cap. Royal Marines. Marines; Anodised. Globe and Laurel, Lugs, Cotter Pin rear fixing
Guaranteed new/unissued and in mint condition
As the descendant of the old Marine Regiments of the British Army, the Royal Marines used to have a position in the Order of Precedence of the Infantry; this was after the 49th Regiment of Foot, the descendant of which is the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. Therefore, the Royal Marines would have paraded after the RGBW. This is because the 49th Foot was the last Regiment raised prior to the formation of the Corps of Marines as part of the Royal Navy in 1755. In 2007, the RGBW was amalgamated into a large Regiment this new Regiment is placed last in the order of precedence, as it is a Regiment of Rifles . However as a result of the new Army amalgamations the Royal Marines have now been removed from the Infantry order of precedence and will now always take post, as a constituent part of the Naval Service, at the head of the parade alongside the Navy, or alone if the Navy are not represented.
Preceded by: As part of Naval Service, assumes precedence before all Army units | British Army Order of Precedence | Succeeded by: British Army |
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Early connections date from Balaclava in the Crimean War and Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, but the main association stems from World War II . In July 1940, after the fall of Dunkirk , the 5th Battalion , Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders served with the Royal Marine Brigade for over a year. When the Battleships HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk in December 1941, the Royal Marines survivors joined up with the remnants of the 2nd Battalion , in the defence of Singapore . They formed what became known as 'The Plymouth Argylls ', after the Association Footbal l team, since both ships were Plymouth manned. Most of the Highlanders and Marines who survived the bitter fighting were taken prisoner by the Japanese. The Royal Marines Inter-unit Rugby Football Trophy is the 'Argyll Bowl ', presented to the Corps by the Regiment in 1941. A message of greetings is sent to the Regiment each year on their Regimental Day , 25 October, the anniversary of the Battle of Balaclava in 1854.
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
The fore-bearer regiments of the The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment , The East Surrey Regiment (Villier's Marines ) was initially raised as amphibious troops. They served as Marines for a period. To this day one officer from the Royal Marine serves with the PWRR and Vice Versa. Also the Royal Marine Lanyard is worn by all ranks in Service Dress and Number 2 Dress uniform and Barrack Dress of PWRR .
Netherlands Marine Corps
The Royal Marines have close links with the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps , with whom they conduct NATO exercises throughout the year. Formed during the Anglo-Dutch Wars in 1665, the Dutch Marines distinguished themselves in raids on the English coast, where it is likely they met their future counterparts. Units of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps work in close cooperation with 3 Commando Brigade of the Royal Marines . Operational units of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corp s are fully integrated into this Brigade . This integration is known as the United Kingdom -Netherlands Landing Force and is a component of the United Kingdom -Netherlands Amphibious Forc e as a key strike force during the Cold War to strengthen the Nordic area.
Pete Goss , MBE is a British yachtsman who has sailed more than 250,000 nautical miles (460,000km). A former Royal Marine , he is famous for his pioneering project Team Philips . He received a Legion d'Honneur for saving fellow sailor Raphal Dinelli in the 1996 Vende Globe solo around the world yacht race. During a severe storm in the Southern Ocean , he turned his boat around and spent two days sailing into hurricane force winds, finally finding Dinelli in a life-raft that had been dropped by an Australian Air Force plane shortly before his own yacht had sunk. Dinelli is said to have come aboard clutching a bottle of champagne.
Monty Halls - TV broadcaster, explorer and Marine Biologist. He was commissioned as a Royal Marines officer . His time in the Marines included a stint in the British Military Assistance and Training Team in South Africa , where he assisted with the integration of former ANC Guerrillas into the South African Army .
Lieutenant Colonel Herbert George "Blondie " Hasler , DSO , OBE was a distinguished Royal Marines officer in the Second World War . In December 1942 he led a small Commando raid against Axis shipping in Bordeaux . He was responsible for many of the concepts which ultimately led to the post-war formation of the Special Boat Service . After the war he became a notable yachtsman, contributing especially to developments in single-handed sailing
He served as a Troop Commander in Comacchio Group and Commando Logistics Regiment and was deployed to Norway . Parry was deployed to Iraq and he served in a security and humanitarian capacity in Iraqi Kurdistan for Operation Provide Comfort during and after the First Gulf War . He then specialised as Physical Training Instructor . At 23 years old, he became the youngest officer ever to be made Head of Fitness and Training for the Royal Marines Commando Training Centre . Bruce Parry left the service as a Lieutenant after six years.
David McIntosh was a serving Royal Marine Commando from Ashton in Makerfield, Greater Manchester and a member of the of Sky1 TV series Gladiators under the name Tornado . David is 6ft and 15 stone, he has served in Afghanistan , Northern Ireland , Somalia , and the Gulf . He deployed to Afghanistan in October 2008 for six months.
Stransham entered the Royal Marines on 1 January 1823. Four years after entering the service, he was present as a Subaltern at the Battle of Navarino on 20 October 1827. Stransham led the Royal Marines during the attack on the City of Canton in the First Opium War in 1841. He was wounded and was promoted to Captain. He was awarded the Baltic Medal , having been with Charles John Napier in 1854. From 1862 to 1867, General Stransham was Inspector-General of the Royal Marines .
Later in his career, as a General , the "Grand Old Man of the Army " became a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath . He saw active service for over 53 years, retiring with the rank of General on 24 December 1875
Major General Julian Howard Atherden Thompson , CB , OBE is a Military Historian and former Royal Marines officer who commanded 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands War . Thompson joined the Royal Marines in 1952. During the 1960s he was deployed to Borneo for the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation . He was appointed Commanding Officer of 40 Commando in 1975 and Commander of 3 Commando Brigade in 1981 and in that role was British Land Commander on the Falklands islands during the first phase of the conflict ashore. He retired in 1986.
In retirement he has written extensively on the Falklands conflict and other aspects of British Military History including the Iraq War . He is also a visiting Professor at the department of War Studies , King's College , University of London .
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh known as Evelyn Waugh , was an English writer of novels , biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer. His best-known works include his early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), his novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) and his trilogy of Second World War novels collectively known as Sword of Honour (195261). Waugh is widely recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century.
The son of a publisher, Waugh was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford , and worked briefly as a schoolmaster before becoming a full-time writer. As a young man, he acquired many fashionable and aristocratic friends, and developed a taste for country house society that never left him. In the 1930s he travelled extensively, often as a special newspaper correspondent; he was reporting from Abyssinia at the time of the 1935 Italian invasion. He served in the British Armed Forces throughout the Second World War , first in the Royal Marines and later in the Royal Horse Guards
Royal Marines | |
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Royal Marine Corps | |
Active | 1664 Present |
Country | Kingdom of England (1664 -1707) Kingdom of Great Britain (1707 - 1801) United Kingdom (1801 present) |
Branch | Her Majesty's Naval Service, British Armed Forces |
Type | Marine Commando |
Role | Expeditionary & amphibious warfare |
Size | 7,760 Royal Marines 530 Royal Marines Reserve |
Naval Staff Offices | Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, London, England |
Nickname | Royals Bootnecks The Commandos Jollies |
Motto | Per Mare , Per Terram (Latin) ("By Sea , By Land ") |
Colours | Blue Gold Green Red |
March | Quick: "A Life on the Ocean Wave " Slow: "Preobrajensky " |
Anniversaries | Corps Birthday : 28 October 1664 |
Engagements | Second Anglo-Dutch War Third Anglo-Dutch War Williamite War in Ireland War of the Spanish Succession War of Jenkins' Ear Seven Years' War American Revolutionary War War of 1812 Napoleonic Wars Crimean War First Opium War Second Opium War Indian Mutiny Maori Wars Anglo-Satsuma War Expedition to Abyssinia Anglo-Ashanti wars Anglo-Egyptian War Mahdist War Second Boer War Boxer Rebellion First World War Russian Civil War Second World War Civil War in Palestine Korean War Suez Crisis Malayan Emergency Cyprus dispute Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation Aden Emergency The Troubles Dhofar Rebellion Falklands War Persian Gulf War Bosnian War Kosovo War Sierra Leone Civil War Iraq War Intervention in Libya War in Afghanistan |
Website | Royal Marines |
Commanders | |
Captain-General | HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh , KG , KT , OM , GBE , AC , QSO , PC |
First Sea Lord | Admiral Sir Philip Andrew Jones. KCB , ADC |
Commandant-General | Major General Robert Andrew Magowan, CBE |
Insignia | |
Non-ceremonial flag | |
Commando flash | |
Abbreviation | RM |
MILITARY - BRITISH ARMED FORCES - NAVAL SERVICE
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