Kor Marin Diraja (Royal Marine Corps), atau Royal Marines (RM), adalah kor marin dan infantriamfibia dalam United Kingdom, dan membentuk sebahagian daripada Perkhidmatan Laut (bersama-sama dengan Tentera Laut Diraja dan organisasi yang berkaitan). Marin Diraja telah ditubuhkan pada tahun 1755 sebagai infantri marin bagi Tentera Laut Diraja. Walau bagaimanapun, asal-usulnya dikesan dari pembentukan "Rejimen maritim askar berjalan kaki Duke of York dan Albany" di dalam Kompeni Artileri Kehormat pada 28 Oktober 1664.
Historical Records of the Buffs, East Kent Regiment, 3rd Foot, Formerly Designated the Holland Regiment, by H. R. Knight, 1905.
The Whitefoord Papers; Being the Correspondence and Other Manuscripts of Colonel Charles Whitefoord and Caleb Whitefoord, from 1739 to 1810, by Charles Whitefoord, Clarendon press, 1898. Searchable full text available on-line at Google Books. Charles Whitefoord served in Wynyard's (4th Marines), Gooch's, and the 5th Marines in the 1740s.
Historical record of the Royal marine forces, by Paul Harris Nicolas, Thomas and Boone, London, 1845. Searchable full text available on-line at Google Books.
Per Mare, Per Terram: Reminiscences of Thirty-two Years' Military, Naval, and Constabulary Service by William Henry Poyntz, Economic Print. & Publ. Co. (1892). Searchable full text available on-line at Google Books.
Britain's sea soldiers : a history of the Royal Marines and their predecessors and of their services in action, ashore and afloat, and upon sundry other occasions of moment, by Cyril Field, Liverpool:The Lyceum Press, 1924, (2 vol.) Covers British Marines until around 1900.
Britain's Sea Soldiers: A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919, by General Sir H.E. Blumberg, Devonport, 1927. Very detailed with excellent maps. The USMC used the maps from this book for their studies of Gallipoli in the 1920s and 30s that led to the formation of US amphibious doctrine in 1935.
By Sea and Land by Robin Neillands, 1987, Cassell Military Paperbacks, ISBN 0-304-35683-2. Traces the history of the Corps until the end of the Falkands Campaign in 1982.
Uniforms of the Royal Marines by Charles Stadden, 1997, ISBN 0-9519342-2-8