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the artist commissioned by the Royal Marines in 1920 to paint Brigadier General F.W. Lumsden VC (pictured) , was Helen Donald-Smith Venice were described as "pretty pictures"?
while in Boston in 1768, sailors and marines from HMS Romney John Hancock ?
passengers for Lympstone Commando railway station Royal Marine Commando Training Centre ?
detachments of Royal Marines and of seamen from the Royal Navy were formed into Naval Brigades pictured ) to undertake operations on shore in the Crimean War , the Second Opium War , the Indian Mutiny , the Zulu War and Boer War , and the Boxer Rebellion ?
The Tanganyika Rifles mutinied in 1964 , seizing control of Tanganyika for days before surrendering to the Royal Marines ?
Captain Israel Pellew Sir Edward Pellew , sent his Captain of Marines to receive Admiral Villeneuve's surrender at the Battle of Trafalgar but in the heat of battle, Villeneuve's sword never reached him and it was later given to Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood who kept it much to Pellew's disgust?
Royal Marine Francis Harvey , the mortally wounded commander of HMS Lion ' s 'Q' turret, was awarded the Victoria Cross for ordering the magazine flooded, which saved the ship during the Battle of Jutland ?
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