As an ex-RSM of the Group, perhaps I might set some of the record straight.

Firstly note correct spelling of Comacchio. As many will know a town in NE Italy where, during WW2, LCpl Tom Hunter won the Corps only VC of that war.

I wasn't involved in the formation of the Unit, but am well aware of ...

As an ex-RSM of the Group, perhaps I might set some of the record straight.

Firstly note correct spelling of Comacchio. As many will know a town in NE Italy where, during WW2, LCpl Tom Hunter won the Corps only VC of that war.

I wasn't involved in the formation of the Unit, but am well aware of ...

Allan,

my feelings exactly. This is year 7 that I have marched (ie all the years I have been here) and I don't want to see a great Aussie icon disrupted by rent-a-mob, in as much as I was warning off the guys in UK when it comes around to Armistice Day or some similar significant event.

Have a ...

Allan,

my feelings exactly. This is year 7 that I have marched (ie all the years I have been here) and I don't want to see a great Aussie icon disrupted by rent-a-mob, in as much as I was warning off the guys in UK when it comes around to Armistice Day or some similar significant event.

Have a ...

Probably a stupid question, but the speed of messages to "down-under" can be really slow at times!

Is it correct that those of us who were serving in 1977 at the Silver Jubilee and didn't win the lottery, at the time, are now able to retrospectively claim a Silver Jubilee medal?

I ask, purely with ...

Probably a stupid question, but the speed of messages to "down-under" can be really slow at times!

Is it correct that those of us who were serving in 1977 at the Silver Jubilee and didn't win the lottery, at the time, are now able to retrospectively claim a Silver Jubilee medal?

I ask, purely with ...

George enlisted in the Royal Marines on 21 August 1940 and was discharged on 27 December 1945.

During his active service he was part of MNBDO 1 seving in Palestine, Ceylon, Burma (attached to Force Viper) and India. He also spent time with 30 Battalion RM Support Group arriving in France on D+2 and ...

G'day guys,

well I've survived 21 May, 20 yrs on, out here in Oz. Notwithstanding a large degree of pain from the back injury, the legacy of that day. Nor the fact that I had to go to a funeral this morning, one of my 16yr old son's school friends decided to commit suicide last week, and it's been ...

G'day guys,

well I've survived 21 May, 20 yrs on, out here in Oz. Notwithstanding a large degree of pain from the back injury, the legacy of that day. Nor the fact that I had to go to a funeral this morning, one of my 16yr old son's school friends decided to commit suicide last week, and it's been ...

No Tug sorry, you've got the wrong end of the stick. I don't feel out of it because I am younger (hey guys I was 50 last week..only 5 yrs to go to beat the bastards on the pension!!)its just that the veterans that predominantly make up the RMA branch here are exactly that..they are as old as my Dad ...

No Tug sorry, you've got the wrong end of the stick. I don't feel out of it because I am younger (hey guys I was 50 last week..only 5 yrs to go to beat the bastards on the pension!!)its just that the veterans that predominantly make up the RMA branch here are exactly that..they are as old as my Dad ...

Thanks TT, glad to know that a "returned convict" got his own back!!
But seriously, isn't that what all this about, the greater "brotherhood", "comradeship", or to be Australian "mateship"? All of us have been there, we are Royal Marines and none of us want to let go of that fact. And why should we ...

Thanks TT, glad to know that a "returned convict" got his own back!!
But seriously, isn't that what all this about, the greater "brotherhood", "comradeship", or to be Australian "mateship"? All of us have been there, we are Royal Marines and none of us want to let go of that fact. And why should we ...

Well Jim T started something here didn't he? Not that I have any problem with the thrust of the argument. Out here in little old South Australia (bear in mind the State is 5 times the size of the British Isles) we have an RMA branch. And yes, when I left the Corps 6 years ago I joined, and within ...

Well Jim T started something here didn't he? Not that I have any problem with the thrust of the argument. Out here in little old South Australia (bear in mind the State is 5 times the size of the British Isles) we have an RMA branch. And yes, when I left the Corps 6 years ago I joined, and within ...