royalmarines
4 photos and 1 illustration tagged royalmarines, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.
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Related tags
Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:
- firstworldwar
- britisharmy
- soldiers
- ww1
- soldier
- wwi
- worldwarone
- greatwar
- thegreatwar
- ostend
- belgium
- military
- worldwar1
- france
- war
- worldwari
- rm
- 19141918
- warphotography
- photographicprints
- bldigital
- date1885
- pubplacelondon
- publicdomain
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- The Library of Congress
- IWM Collections
- North East Museums
- National Library of Scotland
- British Library
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Recent uploads
The last upload was July 2017.
Royal marines passing through Ostend, 1915 from North East Museums uploaded July 2017
Lieutenant Herbert Allen Bass from IWM Collections uploaded November 2012
When England Came to the Help of Invaded Belgium (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded November 2011
Fine advertisement, isn't it? from National Library of Scotland uploaded June 2010
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Fine advertisement, isn't it?
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Pabmusic said:
These are men of the Royal Marine Artillery, not Royal Artillery. Their cap badges clearly show it (and it explains 'RMA' as well).
When England Came to the Help of Invaded Belgium (LOC)
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bior said:
The top photo appears to be edited ... the troops marching do not match the perspective of the buildings in the background or the civilians in the square.
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swanq said:
From The Day (from New London, CT) on 8/28/1814 news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19140828&... indicates that the British Marines landed in Ostend on August 27, 1914 From www.1914-1918.net/hli.htm The Highland Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion, landed in Boulogne on August 14, 1914
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swanq said:
The upper photo was also used by the NYT in the pictorial section from Sept, 20, 1914 memory.loc.gov/service/sgp/sgpnyt/1914/191409/19140920/00... or memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/np_item.pl?collection=sgproto&...