MORE than 100 current Royal Marine Commandos many based at the Stonehouse barracks - and dozens of ex-marines are seeking damages from the Ministry of Defence after claiming they were exposed to asbestos during two major military exercises.
Former marine Edward Hill first filed the case in September 2019 after he came to believe his unit was exposed to the most hazardous type of asbestos during Exercise Baltic Protector 2019 (BP19).
Mr Hill and other marines have also claimed they were exposed to asbestos during Exercise Sabre Strike 2018 (SS18). Mr Hill's lawyers, Kingsley Napley LLP, are now fighting the case on the basis that the MoD allegedly breached the Human Rights Act of 1998 by exposing them to a hazardous substance in the workplace.
The exercises took place at Skrunda-1, an old Soviet base in what is now Latvia that consisted of dozens of abandoned buildings.
Across both exercises a total of more than 300 Royal Marines were said to have operated on the base.
This story is from the November 18, 2023 edition of The Herald.
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