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British Royal Marines
The Corps of Royal Marines can trace their origins back to the formation of the English Army's "Duke of York and Albany's maritime regiment of Foot" at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company on 28 October 1664. Throughout its history, the Royal Marines have seen action in a number of major wars often fighting beside the British Army, including the World War II. The Royal Marines formed the Royal Marine Division as an amphibiously trained division. In addition the Royal Marines formed Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisations similar to the United States Marine Corps Defense Battalions. One of these took part in the defence of Crete.
In 1942 the Infantry Battalions of the Royal Marine Division were re-organised as Commandos, joining the British Army Commandos. The Division command structure became a Special Service Brigade command. oth Army and Royal Marine Commandos would be in existence for the remainder of World War II and they both followed the same procedures in their methods of operations and training.
The Royal Marine Commandos followed basically the same structure as the Army with a HQ Troop, five Assault (Rifle) Troops, and one Weapons Troop but With only 431 officers and men per Commando. The Troop was identical with the Army Commando with 92 officers. The Weapons Troop had the ,:same manpower but was equipped with two 3" mortars instead of three. The MG Section remained the same with two MMG per section. The Royal Marine termed their infantry troops as "Assault Troops" with each troop composed of 60 officers.
Throughout the war Royal Marines continued in their traditional role of providing ships detachments and manning a proportion of the guns on Cruisers and Capital Ships. The British Royal Marines had a total force of nine battalions plus some shipboard detachments.
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