The following comes from a novel about the Royal Marines in Cyprus in 1956. It's clearly from a specialized version of "The Sailor / Trooper Cut Down in His Prime." Has anyone ever heard this RM version ? Can anyone complete the song from tradition ?

So beat the drum slowly and play the pipes mournfully,
We'll sing the Dead March as we carry him along.
We'll stand by his graveside, fire three volleys o'er him,
He was a young Royal cut down in his prime.

ISTR that Lloyd or MacColl once wrote that this was the "anthem" of the RM in WW II, but this fragment of it is all I've ever seen.