October 2022

Volcanoes Ready to Erupt on the Sevens Circuit

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Volcanoes Ready to Erupt on the Sevens Circuit

The RNRU has an incredibly talented player base with individuals performing week in and week out across the world! This is no mere hyperbole. The RN has recently had representatives playing 7’s for Wales and Hungary; five Navy Rugby Women are playing for UKAF in New Zealand and joining them on the otherside of the world this month is Jerome Rudder who has been officially called up for the Philippines’ Volcanoes squad ahead of the 2022 Asia Rugby Series.  RNRU 7s Lead Coach and Seniors Backs’ Coach, Silivenusi Buinimasi, had these words for Jerome, “many congratulations on the Volcanoes squadselection. You thoroughly deserve all the accolades on your ...

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Royal Marine Band Service vs Deal and Betteshanger Lions

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Royal Marine Band Service vs Deal and Betteshanger Lions
RMBS remember the 11 Bandsmen killed at the Royal Marines Barracks in Deal in September 1989.

The Royal Marines Band Service vs Deal & Betteshanger Lions   Memorial Rugby Match, 01 Oct 2022    On 22nd September the whole of the Band Service, along with many in the local community of Deal, took time to pause and remember the 11 musicians killed by the IRA when they bombed the Deal Staff Band’s rest area on that day in 1989. What better way to  honour  and remember them than by playing a charitable, fun and respectful rugby match against Deal and Betteshanger RFC, as the Band Service has done in almost every year since. Many of those who lost their lives on that day were part of this rugby club and part of the c...

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Jamie Campbell-Baldwin Appointed to the Executive Committee

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Jamie Campbell-Baldwin Appointed to the Executive Committee

The Royal Navy Rugby Union is  delighted  to  report  that  Jamie Campbell-Baldwin  has taken over as the Director of  Communications ( DoC )  with imm ediate effect.   Jamie  joins the Union’s Executive  having been out of the UK for the last five years, which has included a Bahrain  OpTour , a three-year appointment to STRIKFORNATO in  Oeiras , Portugal and latterly an  OpTour  to Japan as part of USN 7 th  Fleet in Yokosuka.    During this  time,  he still had time for rugby. He  moved from the backs to the second row ...

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