According to The Sun newspaper the elite recruits at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines in Lympstone had pulled out all the stops to create a festive tree replete with decorations.

In September, defence chiefs ordered Royal Marines' training exercises to be renamed ... have been rebranded as 'Commando Forge' and 'Green Salmander' respectively. Even the seemingly generically ...

Lympstone Commando — probably the only railway ... As you pull into this dedicated halt for the Royal Marines’ central training facility on the Devon coast, you are faced on your right with ...

A D-Day commando whose unit landed in Normandy without helmets has died aged 100. Dennis Donovan served with 48 (Royal Marine ... for the Canadian Juno Beach Centre Museum said: “It is with ...

RECRUITS at an elite Marines base had to remove their Christmas tree over health and safety concerns. Rookies at the Commando Training Centre installed ... in a fire.” A Royal Navy spokesman ...

A D-Day commando whose unit landed in Normandy without helmets has died aged 100. Dennis Donovan served with 48 (Royal Marine) Commando and was part ... A spokesman for the Canadian Juno Beach Centre ...

Thousands of people have paid their final respects to an ex-Royal Marine who took his own life ... recruits who began the gruelling 32-week Commando training course with him, he was one of only ...

Royal Marine recruits at a prestigious training ... had been installed by recruits at the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone. A civilian facilities manager at the base demanded the tree's ...

The war interrupted that training and after first joining the Home Guard ... to special duties… which eventually led to transferring to the Royal Marines as a sergeant with 40 Commando – a unit which ...