All Posts

The journey

Port Stanley. June 1982. He has stopped because there is nowhere left to walk. Image: IWM (FKD 157) An exhausted Royal Marine of 45 Commando sits in the mud at...

On by Carl Upshon 0 comments

it's carnage

Morning campers.  The above is a photo from this reel I shared on the socials showing some Bootneck training from around 1961.  Roller haulage at it's finest.  When the advance party reaches...

On by Carl Upshon 0 comments

Egg Assault: Marines' Yolky Training Mayhem

The Royal Marines – those unflappable Bootnecks who've stared down everything from Napoleonic fleets to Taliban strongholds, all while embodying that unbreakable Commando Spirit. You know the drill. Courage to...

On by Carl Upshon 0 comments