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Woolwich Academy prepared boys for commissions in the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers. The procedure, both in Frederick English’s time and in his son’s, was that, at age fourteen, a boy must get a nomination from the Master General of the Ordinance.
The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Signals and other technical corps.
The British Army during the Victorian era served through a period of great technological and social change.Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, and died in 1901. Her long reign was marked by the steady expansion and consolidation of the British Empire, rapid industrialisation and the enactment of liberal reforms by both Liberal and Conservative governments within Britain.
Having gotten over these obstacles and bumbled his way (as did the author in his own schooling) through chemistry, French, mathematics and drawing) the aspiring young graduate was deemed worthy of a commission in the RA and dispatched merrily on his way to a serving company.
Under the old Regulations of 1871, 3,000 marks were given for Latin and 3,000 for English—being in each case 1,000 more marks than were given for any other subjects except mathematics—the object being that boys who had the advantage of a public school education might proceed straight to Woolwich without the interposition of professional ...
As to the period at which the youths were admitted the fact was this:—On looking back to the reports of the academy, he found that whilst they were admitted at the age of fourteen, nearly one-half of them never passed up to their commission.
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The first officially sanctioned military college was the Royal Military Academy (RMA), Woolwich, established in 1741 by the Royal Artillery. The RMA focused on the rapidly advancing technical skills that artillery officers required, teaching maths and science as well as more military subjects.
