Recruit Ethan Jones's family said joining the marines fulfilled his ... drowned after disembarking from a landing craft into deep water at Tregantle beach, Cornwall on 21 January 2020 said a ...
the King reminisced about his own Royal Marines training, including the infamous “sheep dip” endurance test, as he watched Kenyan marines stage a covert beach landing in Mombasa.
He also met 100-year-old D-Day veteran Norman Ashford, a coxswain on a landing craft who did numerous runs up Gold Beach. Mr Ashford is affectionately known by today’s Royal Marines as Grandad ...
James Laughlin was one of 17,000 marines involved in D-Day, clearing mines on Gold Beach A 101-year-old former Royal Marine commando ... that were a danger to landing craft. He was handed his ...