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4 photos and 1 illustration tagged royalmarines, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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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 1 photo / illustration
• IWM Collections 1 photo / illustration
• North East Museums 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Scotland 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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When England Came to the Help of Invaded Belgium (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 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.

• 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

• 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&...

Fine advertisement, isn't it?

from National Library of Scotland

• 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).

Lieutenant Herbert Allen Bass

from IWM Collections

• Charlotte Czyzyk said:

  Help piece together the Life Stories of more than 8 million men and women who made a contribution during the First World War at www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org/