The Royal Military College
(RMC), founded in 1801 and established in 1802 at Great Marlow and High
Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, but moved in October 1812 to Sandhurst, Berkshire,
was a British Army military academy for training infantry and cavalry officers
of the British and Indian Armies.
The RMC was reorganised at the outbreak of the Second World War, but some of its units remained operational at Sandhurst andAldershot . In 1947, the Royal Military
College was merged with the Royal Military
Academy
The New College Buildings at RMC Sandhurst
The most notable cadets of RMC Sandhurst include:
The RMC was reorganised at the outbreak of the Second World War, but some of its units remained operational at Sandhurst and
Notable Cadets
The most notable cadets of RMC Sandhurst include:
- Sir William Denison (1825–1826), Governor of
- Field Marshal Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar
(1840–1841)
- Field Marshal Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl
Roberts (1850–1851)
- Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of
- King Alfonso XII of
- Field Marshal Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount
Plumer (1875–1876)
- John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
(1878–1879), Governor-General of
- Ronald Munro
- Field Marshal Viscount Allenby (1881–1882)
- Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet
(1882–1883), Governor-General of
- Field Marshal Earl Haig (1884–1885)
- Sir Winston Churchill (1894)
- Prince Alexander of Teck (1894), later the
Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa and Governor
General of
- Field Marshal Earl Wavell (1900–1901), Viceroy
of
- Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
(1907–1908)
- Sir Oswald Mosley (1914)
- Field Marshal Prince Henry, Duke of
- Ayub Khan (1926–1927), later President of
Pakistan
- Ian Fleming (1927), author, creator of James
Bond
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