Royal Marines

Sub-units 5

People who served 15

Nick Vaux Major-general · 1954–1990

Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh 1986–1987

John Maitland

Charles Townshend

Julian Thompson Jeremy Moore Major-general

James Dutton Keith Mills

Prince Philip

George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe

Thomas Davey

John Pitcairn

Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey

Robert Sturges

Charles Mitchell

Strength and losses

Nominal Strength: 5,820

Movements

April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783 American Revolutionary War
April 20, 1792 – March 25, 1802 French Revolutionary Wars
May 18, 1803 – November 20, 1815 Napoleonic Wars
June 18, 1812 – February 17, 1815 War of 1812
September 4, 1839 – August 29, 1842 First Opium War
1845 – 1872 New Zealand Wars
March 11, 1845 – January 11, 1846 Flagstaff War
October 16, 1853 – March 30, 1856 Crimean War
October 8, 1856 – October 24, 1860 Second Opium War
May 10, 1857 – November 1, 1858 Indian Rebellion of 1857
August 15–17, 1863 Bombardment of Kagoshima
1867 – 1868 British expedition to Abyssinia
June 29, 1881 – November 24, 1899 Mahdist War
July 11 – September 13, 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War
October 11, 1899 – May 31, 1902 Second Boer War
July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
November 6, 1914 Fao Landing
November 7, 1917 – June 16, 1923 Russian Civil War
September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
September 23–25, 1940 Battle of Dakar
February 1, 1944 – May 14, 1948 Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
January 14 – February 22, 1945 Battle of Ramree Island
January 22–31, 1945 Battle of Hill 170
August 28, 1945 Operation Jurist
November 30, 1947 – May 14, 1948 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine
June 16, 1948 – July 12, 1960 Malayan Emergency
June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953 Korean War
January 20, 1963 – August 11, 1966 Konfrontasi
July 20 – August 18, 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
April 2 – June 14, 1982 Falklands War
April 2–3, 1982 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands
April 25, 1982 Operation Paraquet
May 28–29, 1982 Battle of Goose Green
June 11–12, 1982 Battle of Mount Longdon
June 11–12, 1982 Battle of Two Sisters
June 11–12, 1982 Battle of Mount Harriet
June 13–14, 1982 Battle of Wireless Ridge
June 13–14, 1982 Battle of Mount Tumbledown
August 2, 1990 – January 17, 1991 Operation Desert Shield
March 23, 1991 – January 18, 2002 Sierra Leone Civil War
April 6, 1992 – November 21, 1995 Bosnian War
February 28, 1998 – June 11, 1999 Kosovo War
March 20, 2003 – December 18, 2011 Iraq War
March 21–25, 2003 Battle of Umm Qasr
March 19 – October 31, 2011 Operation Ellamy
January 1, 2015 – August 30, 2021 War in Afghanistan (2015–2021)