Cymru Commandos

72 years ago on the 4th December 1951, 52 members of the Chatham Royal Marine Cadets, aged between 9-13yrs, were marching at the side of the road in full uniform when a double-decker bus collided with their Company along Dock Road, Chatham. 24 Royal Marine Cadets lost their lives and 18 were injured.
The company were marching from Melville Barracks to the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, to attend a boxing tournament.
The cadets were marching three abreast on the left-hand side of the road, dressed in uniform wearing Royal Marines standard-issue dark blue battledress and berets.
A military funeral was held for 20 of the boys that lost their lives, at Rochester Cathedral on the 12th December 1951, the other four boys having private Catholic funerals. Thousands of local people lined the route of the funeral procession and gathered outside the Cathedral.
Every year on the Sunday closest to the event, the Chatham Marine Cadet Unit holds a memorial parade at the cemetery where the cadets were laid to rest.
Forever remembered

A Royal Marines sniper team has brought a Caribbean drug-runners' power boat to a "juddering halt" after shooting out its engines.
US Coast Guard personnel, working alongside the sailors and marines on board Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dauntless, were then able to seize £60m worth of co***ne, which the smugglers had been attempting to throw overboard.
The Portsmouth-based destroyer has now taken her tally to more than £200m worth of illegal narcotics intercepted after hunting down the 35ft vessel.
The Royal Navy said: "During a routine counter-narcotics patrol of the Caribbean Sea, Dauntless launched her Wildcat helicopter and Royal Marines sniper team to close in on the suspect craft.
"When smugglers began to jettison their illegal cargo, their engines were taken out with precision by the commando snipers, bringing the boat to a juddering halt.
"That allowed a US Coast Guard team to be dispatched from Dauntless and 11 large bales of co***ne weighing 330kg to be seized."

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RMFA STANDARDS

These are some of the standards I try to hold my athletes to when they’re going to CPC.

Not only does being above the minimums stand you in good stead for that second day.

But it also increases confidence on an already nerve racking journey down there.

If you can hit these. The RMFA should be nothing more than a box ticking exercise.

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Mourners paid their respects today to a heroic D-Day veteran who died just days before his 99th birthday. Ted Owens had lived all his life in Pembroke Dock, and on Thursday people in the town and members of the armed forces lined the streets to pay their respects at his funeral.
Former Admiralty worker Ted was just 18 years old when he joined 41 Royal Marine Commandos during the Second World War. On June 6, 1944, Ted landed on Sword Beach, Normandy, in the initial wave of advances. But within 30 minutes of landing the now 19-year-old Royal Marine Commando's tank was hit by a shell on the beach, causing dozens of pieces of metal to become embedded in his shoulder, chest, and back – 14 of which were never removed.
Initially, his colleagues thought he had been killed, but when they saw his eyes move he was evacuated and spent two and a half months at a hospital in Caerphilly with shoulder, back, and chest wounds. After recovering and being given five days' leave, he was sent back to his unit and was wounded twice more in battles.
The former fireman was given a fitting send-off on Thursday (August 10) as before the funeral, a fire engine led Ted's coffin out of the local fire station. Standard bearers then walked in front of the hearse as it made its way from Garrison Chapel to St John's Church for the service of celebration and thanksgiving.
Close friend, Greg Lewis, said at the funeral: "It is easy to say that as we pay our final respects to him, we are saying goodbye to a connection to our history. Very easy, but very true. Ted had grown up in Pembroke Dock before the wars. He saw the smoke and flame above the town when the Luftwaffe bombed the oil tanks. He experienced the war up front. He was a history book.