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The school was co-educational; which makes the Duke of York's the second co-educational boarding school in the United Kingdom. The first co-educational institution was the Royal Hibernian Military School in Dublin which was relocated and merged with Duke of York's after Ireland declared independence. [9]
It was originally called the Royal Military Asylum and was a school for the children of soldiers' widows. [2] In 1892 it was renamed the Duke of York's Royal Military School. In 1909, the school moved to new premises in Dover, and the Asylum building was taken over by the Territorial Army and renamed the Duke of York's Barracks in 1911. [3]
The Duke of York's Royal Military School is named in the duke's honour as he was largely responsible for the founding of the school by Royal Warrant in 1801 (it was originally called the Royal Military Asylum for the Children of Soldiers of the Regular Army). The school was moved to its current site near Dover in 1909.
Sons of the Brave is a marching song written by Thomas Bidgood (1858-1925) in 1898. It has been the Regimental (School) Quick March of the Duke of York's Royal Military School (and its predecessor, the Royal Military Asylum in Chelsea, which was built for children of Regular British Army soldiers) for many years.
Pages in category "People educated at the Duke of York's Royal Military School" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
By 1808 the system and organisation of the school followed closely that of its sister school, the Duke of York's Royal Military School (then at Chelsea, London, England). By 1816, when Thomas Le Fanu (father of Sheridan Le Fanu) took over as chaplain, there were 600 children at the school.
The museum inherited the collections of the Royal Dragoon Guards and of the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and is creating a collection on behalf of the Yorkshire Regiment. [10] Following an expansion of the museum financed by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Duke of York visited the building in May 2015. [11]
The Royal Army Educational Corps managed a number of Army Schools of Education: Inter-war. The Army School of Education, Shorncliffe Army Camp (from 1920) [9] [10] [11] Post-war. The Army School of Education, Buchanan Castle, Drymen (from 1945) [12] The Army School of Education, Eltham Palace, Greenwich (from 1945) [6] [13]