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A double-decker bus ploughed into a company of fifty-two young members of the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps, [2] aged between nine and thirteen. Twenty-four of the cadets were killed and eighteen injured; at the time it was the highest loss of life in any road accident in British history, until it was surpassed by the 1975 Dibbles Bridge ...
The RMACC was initially formed with the motto 'Manners Maketh Man', and re-titled as the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps in the mid-20th century (sometimes also known as the RM Volunteer Boys Corps). Royal Marines Girl Cadet Corps (also known as the Royal Marines Volunteer Girls Corps) and the Girl Ambulance Corps units existed alongside ...
The Royal Naval Volunteer Cadet Corps was formed in 1904 when the officer in charge of HMS Victory barracks in Portsmouth, now known as HMS Nelson, requested permission from Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth to form a cadet corps unit similar to the Royal Marines Artillery Cadets in Eastney.
Sea Cadet Units may open a Royal Marines Cadets Detachment, who will use the same facilities, parade alongside Sea Cadets and fall under the command of the unit CO. Royal Marines Cadet Detachments wear the uniform of the Royal Marines with the exception of Commando qualification badges, [7] and wear cadet specific insignia. [8]
Together with the Combined Cadet Force (CCF) they constitute the UK's MOD-sponsored cadet forces. [1] The Volunteer Cadet Corps, which in 2017 became the fifth MOD sponsored cadet force, [2] enjoy close ties with the Royal Marines elements of the Sea Cadet Corps and the Combined Cadet Force forming a tri-partite family of 'Royal Marines Cadets'.
This is a complete list of memorials at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. [1]The primary memorial at the arboretum is the Armed Forces Memorial which lists all British military casualties since 1948.
Cadets follow similar rates and ranks, traditions, values and ethos as their parent service, the Royal Navy for the Sea cadets and for the Royal Marines Cadets the Royal Marines. Whilst the SCC is not a pre-service organisation, a significant minority of former Sea Cadets and Royal Marines Cadets do go on to join the Royal Navy, Royal Marines ...
The site was established in 1940 as the "Royal Marines Depot Exton" and was renamed the "Royal Marines Depot Lympstone" later in the Second World War. [1] In February 1960, the Commando School Royal Marines, which had been based at Bickleigh Barracks, moved to the site. [2] [3] The site was renamed the "Commando Training Centre Royal Marines ...