Korps Insulinde ('Insulindia Corps') was a Dutch Commando (special operations capable) established on 1 August 1942 in British Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka.
The corps was commanded by Major Frits Mollinger[2][better source needed] of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) and was stationed in Ceylon.
They departed by train from Wolverhampton, England to Gourock, Scotland on 6 January 1942 and left the next day aboard the merchant ship HNLMS Colombia of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Stoomboot-Maatschappij (KNSM) from Glasgow.
Lieutenant admiral Conrad Helfrich, Commander of the Armed Forces in the East (BSO), suggested that the brigade be returned to England, but this did not happen.
The Korps Insulinde remained stationed in Ceylon and in turn became part of the British Force 136 for special actions in the Far East.