Beach Group

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Hi

Just got my dad's military records back,30,09,41 joined beach battalion from RMRD.
What was this group ? Any missions they took part in,also mentioned 1 beach group
Any information I would be grateful
Also posted training list

Thanks

Phil Boot

The following is from the website www.royal-marines.net

Beach Units.
RM Beach Battalion/RM Beach Unit/RM Beach Group: Formed 7/7/1941. Initial roles to land RM Division and its stores and holding the beach area, and to cover any withdrawal if the operation was a raid. Re-designated Beach Unit HQ in September 1942. Became RM Beach Group later. Trained 27 and 28 RM beach groups. Disbanded Spring 1945.
1 and 2 Beach Groups/1 and 2 Landing Groups: Formed October 1942. Exercised in Scotland and at Christchurch on Amphibious landings. Disbanded 31/7/1943.
1st Middle East Beach Brick/Beach Brick 31: 7th RM Battalion formed the nucleus of this unit and was enlarged as Beach brick 31 in 1943. Landed in Sicily, before reverting to infantry role under XXX Corps on D+7.
Force X: Ship unloading company. RM Engineers and Landing Craft Crews served under command Rn Iceland from 7/1940-6/1942. Formed RN Repair Base, Hvitanes.

Other Mobile Base Units.
MOLCAB I: MOLCAB (Mobile Landing Craft Advanced Base) was formed 1-2/1945 to provide shore base facilities for minor landing craft and their maintenance units while away from the parent ships. Disbanded 1945.
MOLCAB II: Formed 2/1945 as Naval Party 2401. Not employed as war ended before its' Pacific operations could begin.
MOLCAB III: Formed 2/1945. Operations in Antwerp. Disbanded 6/1945. MOLCAB IV, V and VI: Formed 4/1945. Disbanded later in 1945.
MOLCAB Assembly Base: Formed 12/7/1945 from an RN Command. Base was disbanded in the autumn of 1945.
MONABS: 11 of these had reached planning stages in August 1945, to build intermediate forward bases in the Pacific. All units disbanded as the war ended, after being used on restoration work in some cases.

MNBDO.
?X? Organisation, Later MNBDO Nucleus: Formed autumn 1923 at Fort Cumberland. Men went to MNBDO I on its formation, though some skeleton AA units remained.
MNBDO Group: The RM component of a RN Mobile Naval Base.
MNBDO I: Formed 1/9/1939 for defence of Naval bases. Disbanded 9/1944.
MNBDO II: Formed January 1941. Disbanded 5/1944.
Fortress Unit I: Formed 8/1939 as defence units to install and man guns for Scapa Flow and other Naval bases. Also served in Iceland. Disbanded 1/1941 when absorbed into MNBDO II. Fortress Unit II: Formed 5/1940. It became the L & M Group of MNBDO II.
Fortress Unit II: Formed 5/1940. It became the L & M Group of MNBDO II. Special Gun-mounting Party, RM: Formed 27/8/1939 to install coastal defence guns around major ports, including Yarmouth.