Royal Marines

Royal Marines Commandos
Royal Marines Commandos
	Badge of the Corps of Royal Marines
Active	28 October 1664 – present; (359 years, 3 months)
Country	United Kingdom
Type	Marines,; Special operations-capable
Size	5,820 as of 1 April 2022 770 officers; 5,050 other ranks;
Part of	His Majesty's Naval Service; UK Special Forces (1 Company, assigned to the SFSG)
Naval staff offices	Whitehall, London, England
Nickname(s)	"Royals"; "Bootnecks"; "The Commandos"; "Jollies"
Motto(s)	Per Mare, Per Terram (Latin); (English: "By Sea, By Land")
Colours	Royal Navy Blue; Old Gold; Light Infantry Green; Drummer Red
March	Quick: "A Life on the Ocean Wave"; Slow: "Preobrajensky"
Engagements	Second Anglo-Dutch War; Third Anglo-Dutch War; Williamite War in Ireland; War of the Spanish Succession; War of Jenkins' Ear; Seven Years' War; American Revolutionary War; French Revolutionary Wars; War of 1812; Napoleonic Wars; Crimean War; First Opium War; Second Opium War; Indian Rebellion; Māori Wars; Anglo-Satsuma War; Expedition to Abyssinia; Anglo-Ashanti wars; Anglo-Egyptian War; Mahdist War; Second Boer War; Boxer Rebellion; First World War; Russian Civil War; Second World War; Insurgency in Palestine; Civil War in Palestine; Korean War; Suez Crisis; Malayan Emergency; Cyprus Emergency; Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation; Aden Emergency; The Troubles; Dhofar Rebellion; Falklands War; Persian Gulf War; Bosnian War; Kosovo War; Sierra Leone Civil War; Iraq War; Intervention in Libya; War in Afghanistan;
Commanders
Captain General	King Charles III
First Sea Lord	Admiral Sir Ben Key
Commandant General	General Gwyn Jenkins
Corps Regimental Sergeant Major	Warrant Officer 1 Nick Ollive
Insignia
Non‑ceremonial flag
Commando flash

The Royal Marines, also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, and officially as the Corps of His Majesty's Royal Marines, are the United Kingdom's amphibious special operations capable commando force, one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy, and provide a company strength unit to the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG). The Royal Marines trace their origins back to the formation of the "Duke of York and Albany's maritime regiment of Foot" on 28 October 1664, and the first Royal Marines Commando unit was formed at Deal in Kent on 14 February 1942 and designated 'The Royal Marine Commando'.

The Royal Marines have seen action across many conflicts but do not have battle honours as such, but rather the "Great Globe itself" was chosen in 1827 by King George IV in their place to recognise the Marines' service and successes in multiple engagements in every quarter of the world. The Corps has close ties with allied marine forces, particularly the United States Marine Corps and the Netherlands Marine Corps (Dutch: Korps Mariniers).

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