Active Service
List of 45 Commando's active service
- Normandy Invasion (D-Day), 1944
- Advance through France and low countries to Germany, 1944–45
- Palestine, 1948
- Malayan Emergency, 1950–52
- Suez Crisis, 1956
- Aden Emergency, 1960–67
- Kuwait, 1961
- Tanganyika, 1964
- Cyprus, various tours 1955-58
- Northern Ireland
- Belfast, June – August 1970
- Belfast, August – September 1971
- Belfast/Newry, October 1971 – February 1972
- Belfast, July 1972
- South Armagh, July – November 1974
- Belfast, June – October 1977
- Belfast, August 1978
- Belfast, July – November 1981
- Belfast, July-November 1986
- South Armagh, October 1990 – March 1991
- Fermanagh, April – November 1995
- East Tyrone, December 2003 - May 2004
- Falklands War, Operation Corporate, 1982
- Northern Iraq, 1991
- Belize Tour 1993
- Kuwait – Op Driver, 1994
- Nicaragua/Honduras – Operation Tellar, 1998
- KFOR, 2000
- Afghanistan - Op Jacana, 2002
- Iraq - Telic 1, 2003
- Afghanistan – Operation Herrick 5, 2006/7
- Afghanistan – Operation Herrick 9, 2008/9
- Afghanistan – Operation Herrick 14, 2011
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