Royal Marine category Agree Baker needs at least one category to mark his military service One overly fussy issue the Royal Marines only received that designation in 1802 Baker was technically a British Marine or most correctly a member of His Majesty s Marine Forces but the name Royal Marine didn t exist while he was in the service Does this matter i don t think we should call him a Roysl Marine in the article text as he plainly wasn t I also raised this at MILHIST at some distant time ago and got the same answer But categories are just navigation aids so there may be a lower standard of precision required in order to keep them useful to readers Views welcome I ve been idly working on a few other NSW Marines articles so how we categorise one might reasonably be done for the others