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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]
Chapel to Duke of York's Headquarters, 2013. The building was completed in 1801 to the designs of John Sanders, who also designed the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. [1] 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.
The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art and an independent charity [2] opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, moving to the Damien Hirst-led Young British Artists, followed by shows purely of painting, led to Saatchi Gallery becoming a recognised authority in contemporary ...
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]
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.
The museum also has a display which covers the two world wars (including the Siege of Calais in May 1940, the defence of Outpost Snipe in October 1942 and the action at Pegasus Bridge in June 1944). The recent history display covers the Cold War , operations in Northern Ireland , United Nations operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the 2003 ...
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Duke of York, Leysters, a pub in Herefordshire, England; Duke of York's Greek Light Infantry Regiment, a British Army regiment active in 1810–16; Duke of York's Headquarters, a former military barracks in Chelsea, London; Duke of York's Picture House, Brighton, a cinema in Brighton, England; Duke of York's Royal Military School, a school in Dover