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  • School meant that it could not be self-funding and had to be subsidised by the tax payer.27 The additional staff employed at the Staff Schoo …

  • the Waterloo campaign,57 as well as others who were past graduates of either the Senior or Junior Departments. In all, twenty-two officers w …

  • 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 …

  • Le general Francois Jarry au service l ’Angleterre, http://ahrf.revues.org/10581 (via www.napoleon—series.org). Le Marchant, D, Memoirs of t …

  • regiments that played important roles in crucial phases of the Waterloo campaign. Examples include the charges of the 7th Hussars and lSt Li …

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

  • Bibliography Primag Sources War Oflice: Royal Military College Sandhurst: Miscellaneous Books and Records; reference W0 99. The Minutes of th …

  • Appendices 33

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

  • 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 …

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

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

  • John M Labbe Corporal William Scott William Ambler George Menibus Reverend William Wheeler134 Sgt John Willis135 John Lowry Staff Sgt Henry …

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

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

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

  • companies34) attached to the college to provide a free education to the sons of non-commissioned officers and soldiers had to be dropped. As …

  • praise of Le Marchant’s work. At Windsor Castle that summer he told Le Marchant that: ‘I consider the Military College an object of the deep …

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