Katana VentraIP

Royal Military College, Sandhurst

The Royal Military College (RMC), founded in 1801 and established in 1802 at Great Marlow and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, 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.

Royal Military College, Sandhurst

1801–1939/1947

 United Kingdom

 British Army

Officer training

Sandhurst, Berkshire

List of governors and commandants of Sandhurst

The RMC was reorganised at the outbreak of the Second World War, but some of its units remained operational at Sandhurst and Aldershot. In 1947, the Royal Military College was merged with the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to form the present-day all-purpose Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

(1825–1826), Governor of New South Wales[17]

Sir William Denison

Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar (1840–1841)[18]

Field Marshal

Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1850–1851)[19]

Field Marshal

(1861–1862), Governor General of Canada

Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby

(1876)[20]

King Alfonso XII of Spain

Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1875–1876)[21]

Field Marshal

(1878–1879), Governor-General of Australia[22]

John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow

(1879–1880), Governor-General of Australia

Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar

Viscount Allenby (1881–1882)[23]

Field Marshal

(1882–1883), Governor-General of New Zealand

Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet

Earl Haig (1884–1885)[24]

Field Marshal

(1894)[25]

Sir Winston Churchill

(1894), later the Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa and Governor General of Canada[26]

Prince Alexander of Teck

Earl Wavell (1900–1901), Viceroy of India[27]

Field Marshal

Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1907–1908)[28]

Field Marshal

(1914), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster[29]

Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet

Kodandera Madappa Cariappa (1918-1919), First native-Indian full General of the Indian Army[30]

Field Marshal

Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1919), Governor General of Australia[31]

Field Marshal

(1920–1921), second Indian Commander in Chief of Indian Army

General Maharaj Shri Rajendrasinhji Jadeja

Thakur (1921–1922), Lieutenant General, Indian Army

Nathu Singh Rathore

Ayub Khan (1926–1927), President of Pakistan[32]

Field Marshal

(1927), author, creator of James Bond[33]

Ian Fleming

(1930), actor, novelist[34]

David Niven

(1932–1934), Brigadier, Indian Army, "Lion of Naushera"

Mohammad Usman

The most notable cadets of RMC Sandhurst include: