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Displaying 1 - 42 of 42'Commando Training Centre RM'
The Commando Training Centre, also known as CTCRM, is the principal training centre for the Royal Marines.
Based at Lympstone in Devon CTCRM selects and trains all Royal Marines Officers, recruits and reserves. CTCRM is unique in that it also provides all Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) command training as well as training 70% of all Royal Marines specialists.
'The Four Commando Tests'
At the end of Royal Marines training recruits need to pass four Commando tests in the space of a week. All tests are completed carrying 21 lbs of equipment and a rifle.
ATHERTON, Kevin Peter
BAGUSTE, Dominic David Alan Fredk
BALL, Anthony William
BELL, Thomas Matthew
BOTHAM, Grenville
- 25 April 2006 (Warrant Officer 1) awarded the Meritorious Service Medal [2].
- 1996 (Sergeant) Zulu Company 45 Commando RM [3].
- 2007 RSM at the Commando Training Centre RM [4].
BRIGGS, Harold

BURTON, Nathaniel Paul
CAIN, Philip James
Marine Recruit Philip Cain died of a short but fatal illness during his training at the CTCRM. [Sources; AFM ROH / Nottingham Post online family announcement.]
CAMPBELL-SMITH, Richard Carl

Marine Recruit Richard Campbell-Smith was four weeks from the end of his 32-week course at the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, Devon, when he reportedly scratched his legs while running. He was admitted to the base medical unit, and later taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital where he died on 2 November.
CHARNOCK, Andrew
COOKE, Adrian David
CRISP, Dominic John Delves

CRUSE, Ernest
- 29 November 1950 wounded during operations at Chosin Reservoir Korea [1a].
FOSTER, Nigel Francis
HARRIS, Jeffrey Leonard
HARRIS, Raymond
HUGHES, Barry
HUTTON, Jamie R.J.
JENKINS, Gareth Stuart
JONES, Ethan
KENNEDY, Malcolm Campbell
Sergeant Malcolm Kennedy died from injuries received in a road traffic accident whilst he was walking from Exeter St David's Station back to the training centre.
LANGFORD, Jonathan Edward
Marine Recruit Jonathan Langford died in a traffic accident when hit by a car on the A338 near Nunton, Salisbury.
LOCKWOOD, Neville, A.
MALLARD, Ian Stuart
MAROK, Jani
MCCARTHY, Brian William
METCALFE, Daniel
Marine Recruit Daniel Metcalfe was only 4 weeks into his training after joining the Royal Marines when he was killed in a mountaineering accident on Dow Crag in Coniston whilst on Easter leave.
O'NEAL, John Peter Garrard
Corporal John O'Neal was serving at the Commando Training Centre RM at the time of his death. [Sources: AFM ROH / Navy News issue Apr 1977, p17.]
PALMER, Keith
PERRY, Steven Leslie
RICHARDS, Alan Wayne

RIVOALLAN, Joel Georges Laurent
Marine Joel Rivoallan was serving at the Commando Training Centre RM at the time of his death. [Sources: AFM ROH / Navy News issue Mar. 1994 p26.]
STEWART, David James
Citation
"Early in the morning of the 9th June Lieutenant Stewart, 45 Commando led a troop strength fighting patrol to the Two Sisters feature in East Falklands with a mission to harass the enemy and cause him casualties.
SWALLOW, Paul Raymond
VALLANCE, David William
WALDRON, Timothy
Marine Tmothy Waldron was serving at the Commando Training Centre RM at the time of his death. [Sources: AFM ROH / Navy News issue June 1980.]
WILKINSON, John
[1] AFM ROH.
[2] Andy Holloway. WO2 RM.
WILLS, Michael Vincent
WINTER, Aaron

Colour Sergeant Aaron Winter died suddenly whilst off duty at Norton Manor Camp in Taunton
WOOLMAN, Tudor Lloyd
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