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Honing a new amphibious role
Following the disastrous landings at Gallipoli the British Government was not keen to consider amphibious landings within any future battle plans.
The Royal Marines however, were keen to learn from the lessons of the Great War.
Following the amalgamation of the RMLI and the RMA the Admiralty had consolidated the identity and role of the Corps to include the role of amphibious warfare.
This led to the Corps establishing a Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) and participating in the new Inter-Services Training and Development Centre (ISTDC).
A Royal Marine landing a light military tank into 1 foot 6-inches of water from an early landing craft on the beach at Fort Cumberland Eastney, Portsmouth, June 1932. (RMM)
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