Royal Marines Cap Badge

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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  

Brief Royal Marines History The Corps of  Royal Marines (RM) is the United Kingdom's amphibious light infantry forming part of the Naval Service , along with the Royal Navy. The Royal Marines were formed in 1755 as the Royal Navy's infantry troops. However, the marines can trace their origin's back to the formation of the English Army's "Duke of York and Albany's maritime regiment of Foot " at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company on 28 October 1664. As a highly specialised and adaptable light infantry force, the Royal Marines are trained for rapid deployment worldwide and capable of dealing with a wide range of threats. The Royal Marines are organised into a light infantry brigade (3 Commando Brigade ) and a number of specialist units including 1 Assault Group Royal Marines , 43 Commando Royal Marines formerly Fleet protection Group Royal Marines (previously the Comacchio Group ), and a company strength committment to the Special Forces Support Group . The Corps operates in all environments and climates, though particular expertise and training is spent on Amphibious warfare ,  Ar ctic warfare , Mountain warfare , Expeditionary warfare , and its committment to the UK's   Rapid Reaction Force.The Corps' 3 Commando Brigade is capable of operating independently and is highly trained as a commando force. It can deploy quickly and fight in any terrain in the world. Throughout its history, the Royal Marines have seen action in a number of major wars often fighting beside the British Army including the Seven Years' War , the Napoleonic Wars , the Crimean War , World War I and World War II . In recent times the Corps has been largely deployed in expeditionary warfare roles such as the Falklands War , the Gulf War , the Bosnian War , the Kosovo War , the Sierra Leone Civil War , the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan . The Royal Marines have close international ties with allied marine forces , particularly the United States Marine Corps and the Netherlands Marine Corps ( Dutch :  Korps Mariniers ) .Today the Royal Marines are an elite fighting force within the British Armed Forces , having undergone substantial changes over time.

 

Order of Precedence

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

 

Affiliations

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.

Alliances
  • Australia - Royal New South Wales Regiment
  • Australia - 1st Commando Regiment
  • Barbados - Barbados Defence Force
  • Falkland Islands - Falkland Islands Defence Force
  • Netherlands - Korps Mariniers (Bond of Friendship)
  • United States - United States Marine Corps (Bond of Friendship)
 

Notable former and serving Royal Marines
  • Kenneth Alford (Fredrik Joseph Ricketts) Director of Music 1927-1944. He was a British Composer of Marches for Band. Under the pen name Kenneth J. Alford , he composed Marches which are considered to be great examples of the art. He was a Bandmaster in the British Army , and Royal Marines Director of Music . Conductor Sir Vivian Dunn called Ricketts "The British March King ." Ricketts frequent use of the Saxophone contributed to its permanent inclusion in Military Bands
  • Lord Jeremy John Durham Ashdown , Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon , GCMG , KBE , PC - Former Liberal Democrat Party Leader joined the Royal Marines in 1959, serving until 1972, retiring with the rank of Captain . He served in Borneo during the Indonesia Malaysia confrontation and the Persian Gulf before training as a Swimmer Canoeist in 1965, after which he joined the elite Special Boat Section (which became the Special Boat Service in the 1980s) and commanded a Section in the Far Eas t . He then went to Hong Kong in 1967 to undertake a full-time interpreter 's course in Chinese, and returned to Britain in 1970 when he was given command of a Commando Company in Belfast . Ashdown left the Marines to join the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6 ). As cover , he worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as first secretary to the United Kingdom mission to the United Nations in Geneva , Switzerland. At the UN , Ashdown was responsible for relations with several UN organisations , involved in the negotiation of several international treaties, and some aspects of the Helsinki Conference .
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Vivian Dunn KCVO OBE FRSA was the Director of Music of the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marines from 1931 to 1953 and Principal Director of Music of the Royal Marines from 1953 to 1968. He was the first British Armed Forces musician to be Knighted
  • Ben Gaffney - Go Commando Atlantic Rowing Race competitor
  • 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

  • Bruce Parry - Explorer and Documentary maker; Tribe and Blizzard-Race To The Pole . Parry entered the Royal Marines and successfully completed training at the Royal Marines Commando Training Centre . He was then selected by the Admiralty Interview Board and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant at the age of 18.

    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.

  • Brian McDermott - an English professional Rugby League Football Coach and former Player. He is the Head Coach of the Leeds Rhinos Club of Super League , having started his coaching career at Harlequins in 2006. A Great Britain International representative forward, McDermott played his club football for Bradford Northern , winning Grand Finals and Challenge Cups with them. McDermott was a Royal Marine for five years.
  • Paul McGough - Battle of Qala-i-Jangi veteran
  • 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.

  • Geoffrey Dyson Palmer , OBE an English actor, known for his roles in British television sitcoms playing Jimmy Anderson in T he Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin , Ben Parkinson in Butterflies and Lionel Hardcastle in As Time Goes By.
  • Orlando Rogers - Go Commando Atlantic Rowing Race competitor and Commando - On The Front Line contributor
  • Tom Sharpe - Author, Blott on the Landscape
  • Hannah Snell - Female Royal Marine (1723-1792)
  • General Sir Anthony Blaxland Stransham , GCB , was a British military officer. Stransham was the son of Lt. Col. Anthony Stransham of the Royal Marines and grandson of Major Samuel Stransham of the Royal Marines , who planted the British flag on the Falkland Islands , claiming it for King George III .

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

  • Chris Terrill (Honorary Royal Marine Commando) - Documentary maker, Commando - On The Front Line
  • 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
  • Sir Charles Cornelius Wheeler CMG (Selwyn Charles Cornelius-Wheeler ) was a British journalist and broadcaster. Having joined the BBC in 1947, he became the corporation's longest serving foreign correspondent, serving in the role until his death. Wheeler also had spells as presenter of several BBC current affairs television programmes including Newsnight and Panorama .He enlisted in the Royal Marines in 1941, rising to the rank of Captain . As part of a secret Naval Intelligence unit assembled by Ian Fleming - 30 Assault Unit , he participated in the Normandy Landings as Second-in-command to Patrick Dalzel-Job . After leaving the Royal Marines in 1947, Wheeler joined the BBC .
 

Royal Marines
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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  • Condition: New
  • Regiment Type: Royal Marines
  • Modified Item: No
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Decade: 2000 to Present
  • Material: Anodised Aluminium
  • Theme: Military
  • Type: Cap / Hat Badges
  • Sub-Theme: Royal Navy

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