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 ...
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...
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 ...