John Rawlinson

Editor @rmhistsociety, amphibious warfare and uniform geek

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

@garygreenobe Fair winds. Keep in touch.

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

@Joanna__Hardy 1891 was a census year. Probably won’t even get to balance of probability but if your house was built in 1891, and you know who lived there in 1891 from the census, and assuming the coin has been in there since…. You could track the following census to find who it didn’t fall on

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

@Alexrjpaterson Lovely way to remember. @Nat_Mem_Arb

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

If you’re interested in the Battle for Walcheren in 1944, the strategic situation and particularly the role played by the Royal Marines… George Gelder’s presentation to the Royal Marines Historical Society has just gone live on YouTube https://t.co/2syki1zfaB

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

Try https://t.co/JoZZzUH9fc

[Ant Metcalfe @ametcalfe42]

I'm after some advice/guidance please @Sweepers3945 what is the best way to find individual ship/shore records? I have list of locations that a relative served on in WW2 as a PSSG - see below any advice will be really helpful. Thanks

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

RM Signaller, 2nd class.

[Stephen Fisher @SeaSpitfires]

Royal Marine folks, what would an S2 on board a Landing Craft Gun actually be in this instance? Is it a rank? @johnRM1664?

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

@SeaSpitfires Your chances of finding a copy for sale are pretty low… but Heather at NMRN says they have a copy in the library…

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

@SeaSpitfires

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

@SeaSpitfires Have you raided my book shelf… https://t.co/l2lfeRbhKD

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@SeaSpitfires Craft that had RM crews that are recorded with men killed in action. @CWGC data.

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@SeaSpitfires @WeHaveWaysPod @blackpitbrewery @James1940 @almurray @EastYorksLHG @stubertphoto @HistoryBowsh @militaryhistori @BattlefieldBen @sauldavid66 @JohnCMcManus3 @churchill_alex @JohnBuckley1967 @HistoryPegg @AndyAitcheson @SeaSpitfires great talk, the content was superbly researched and the delivery utterly enjoyable. Now, about defending the anchorage in the trout line and East of the Orne, neither has the attention they deserve…

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

@thehistoryguy @RoyalMarines It would be great to nail this list down further… and great to hear so much about the Corps today and in the future.

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

@HistoryPegg @WeHaveWaysPod Come and say hello, we’ll be in the @RMHistSociety stall with our Royal Marines D Day exhibition @WeHaveWaysPod

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@Taff_Gillingham …landing craft hence the new cap badge backing and combined ops badge… very nice grouping.

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

@Taff_Gillingham That collection is a pretty good record of how the Royal Marines reorganised in 1943… your man seems to have started in MNBDO II, qualified as a signaller, when manpower was needed for landing craft the MNBDO was largely disbanded and lots of the men transferred to assault…

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@Taff_Gillingham Shameless plug… p87 https://t.co/meaf3r6tpb

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

MNBDO II

[Taff Gillingham @Taff_Gillingham]

Here is a Royal Marines quiz for my Royal Navy-minded followers:

I already know the answer, but I’d never come across this before, so I thought the Bootneck fans among you would appreciate it.

Which WW2 Royal Marines wore a blue tombstone behind their cap badge instead of red?

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

Not with Royal Marines Commandos, over 10,000 Royals served in the invasion as Landing Craft crew… IWM have the photos that Wright took during the operation, they were both on an LCG.

[British Army War Diaries @BritishArmyWDs]

So no @USMC Marines took part in D-Day I hear you say? Well who would like to read the diary of them landing on Sword Beach with the @RoyalMarines Commandos?

[John Rawlinson @johnRM1664]

@TJGodden Don is a delightful guy, hasn’t been in touch with too many others since he was demobbed in 1946, 558 Flotilla got the North Shore Regiment ashore at St Aubyn in face of difficult opposition, all nine of their first wave of assault landing craft got off the beach safely

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