No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando

No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando
Active	1942–1945
Disbanded	4 September 1945
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Commando
Role	Amphibious warfare Close-quarters combat Coastal raiding Cold-weather warfare Direct action Forward observer Raiding Reconnaissance Urban warfare
Size	Maximum 11 Troops
Part of	Combined Operations 1 Special Service Brigade
Garrison/HQ	Eastbourne
Engagements	Second World War
Commanders
Notable commanders	Dudley Lister Peter Laycock
Insignia
Combined Operations recognition badge

No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando was a commando unit of the British Army during the Second World War, recruited largely from non-British personnel from German-occupied Europe. This unit was used to help co-ordinate attacks with other Allied forces.

The unit's origins were in a British volunteer unit proposed in August 1940 which recruited from Northern Command. A low number of recruits, however, meant that the unit was disbanded and the volunteers returned to their units. In July 1942, the unit was raised again as a multinational force, recruiting volunteers from German-occupied Europe and enemy aliens. It included volunteers from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Poland and Yugoslavia, organised into independent sub-units known as "troops".

Units from No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando served in North-West Europe, the Mediterranean, Scandinavia and Burma, mostly in small numbers attached to other military formations. By the end of the war, No. 10 Commando had become the largest commando formation in the British Army.^{[citation needed]}