Royal Military College, Sandhurst | |
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Active | 1801–1939/1947 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | British Army |
Role | Officer training |
Garrison/HQ | Sandhurst, Berkshire 51°28′30″N 0°3′27″E / 51.47500°N 0.05750°E |
Commanders | |
Governors, commandants | List of governors and commandants of 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.
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.