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1st Battalion of Royal Marines [NA]
« on: October 14, 2014, 11:19:30 pm »




The 1st battalion formed at Plymouth on 29 November 1810 under the command of Major Richard Williams. It consisted of six companies, plus an attached company of Royal Marine Artillery. It embarked, arriving in Lisbon on 8 December 1810.The battalion grew to eight companies, plus the attached artillery company.



 It left Portugal in February 1812, and disembarked at Portsmouth. There it remained until 6 June 1812, when it embarked aboard HMS Diadem. The battalion arrived off the coast near Santona on 15 June, and was involved in the attack on the fort at Castro-Urdiales. The fort's garrison of two companies of infantry capitulated on 8 July, the French having evacuated the town the day before. On 10 July, the battalion re-embarked, intending to go to Portugalete, but returned to Castro shortly afterwards. The French, unawares that the marines had returned, launched an unsuccessful counter-attack against the fort's Bilbao gate. Major Williams was appointed commander of the fort on 30 July.


The 1st Battalion embarked (on the ships Diadem(1st to 5th companies) and Diomede (6th to 8th companies and artillery) on 30 March, set sail on 7 April, and arrived in Bermuda on 29 May 1813. There it and the infantry already present were formed into two brigades. The embarked artillery brigade, supporting both battalions, comprised 131 officers and men, four 6-pounder guns, two 8" howitzers, two 5.5" howitzers, two 10" mortars, and a quantity of Congreve rocket launching frames, with associated munitions, all under the command of Captain Thomas Parke

A detachment of the 1st Battalion, under Lieutenants Caldwell and Barton, was present at the Battle of Lacolle Mills (1814). On 16 August 1814, the battalion received orders to be 'disposed for Naval service', with the greater part of the battalion to go to Lake Ontario and the remainder to go to Lake Champlain. In November 1814 the First Battalion was reconstituted in Quebec, and shipped south in support of operations off the coast of Georgia.





Captain

Richard Williams


Lieutenant
Robert MacLeod


Serjeant


Corporal

Clementine Label
Lance Corporal

Samuel Westbury
Mac Lee
Private

Patrick Sinclair
Brody Steffans
Miles Harding
Liam MacTurk
John Sanders



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Re: 1st Battalion of Royal Marines [NA]
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2014, 11:39:08 pm »
Marine Rocket Detachment pls

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Re: 1st Battalion of Royal Marines [NA]
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2014, 04:10:12 am »
plz join 9thNY for rockets

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Re: 1st Battalion of Royal Marines [NA]
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2014, 04:12:29 am »
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Re: 1st Battalion of Royal Marines [NA]
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2014, 08:06:15 am »
Best of luck!

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Re: 1st Battalion of Royal Marines [NA]
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2014, 12:18:31 am »
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Re: 1st Battalion of Royal Marines [NA]
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2015, 12:41:03 am »
Good Luck