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  • Le Marchant realised that the best way to ensure all officers underwent the same high standard of training that he was providing for his own …

  • reform of the Prussian Military Academy until 1811 and so continued to remain unavailable.42 In his place Major Sir Howard Douglas (a former …

  • George Clarke “ “ John Cunliffe Captain Edward Kelly (1St Life Guards) Louis Fouchecoure Samuel Vincent Jonas Walton Staff Sgt Edward Reynol …

  • such as knowing 6how to post a piquet or instruct a sentinel in his duty; and as to moving, God forbid that we should attempt it within thre …

  • The Author Dr Anthony Morton is Curator of the Sandhurst Collection. From 1997 to 2004 Anthony worked as Archivist for the Royal Logistic Co …

  • Despite some discipline problems at the start, mainly because of the novelty of assembling a group of young officers to study together who d …

  • instructed ’.51 Ponsonby had applied for and been given a place in the Senior Department of the Royal Military College in 1803 but had not t …

  • The Staff School at High Wycombe began with a class of twenty- six young officers of an average age of 19-20 who were hoping for staff appoi …

  • FROM FLANDERS TO WATERLOO: THE ORIGINS OF THE ROYAL lVIILITARY COLLEGE ‘You will, I trust, confirm the words inscribed on these Colours, equa …

  • Sandhurst Occasional Papers No 28 From Flanders to Waterloo: The Origins of the Royal Military College Dr Anthony Morton Central Library Roy …

  • Murray had studied in the Senior Department in 1802 and immediately on leaving was appointed Deputy Quartermaster General.46 In 1810, as Wel …

  • no cadet could stay at the College after age nineteen. Candidates had to produce a birth certificate and be mentally and physically fit. The …

  • No 17 No 18 No 19 No 20 No 21 No 22 No 23 No. 24 No. 25 No. 26 No. 27 No. 28 Dr Anthony Morton Stephen Deakin (Ed) Lt Col Harold Simpson, MB …

  • amount of money a cadet could bring to the college in the interests of equality.72 The war with France began again on 16 May 1803. A year la …

  • public opinion in general.30 Establishing a military college for the education of army officers was now seen as desirable and necessary and …

  • part of the wars when the British Army engaged in the more elaborate and complex type of warfare on the continent that differed substantiall …

  • Appendix 2 (Source: WO99/2) THE STUDIES APPROPRIATED TO THE CLASSES OF THE UNDER SCHOOL IN THE JUNIOR DEPARTIVIENT Arithmetic lSt Class: Ari …

  • William Neyland Thomas Hickman/Hickson (Royal Waggon Train)141 Peter Cacqueray Henry Loving Henry Robertson (Royals)142 John Buckland Staff …

  • The Royal Military College Record/ The Royal Military College Magazine & Record The Wish Stream (journal of the Royal Military Academy Sandh …

  • Thomas H L Clerke John Clough Staff Serjeant Peter Lisson Reeve Jones John A Michell Roger Morris (1St West York Militia) “ “ Christopher Ec …