Royal Military Academy

The RMA was founded in 1741 . It was intended to provide an education and produce "good officers of Artillery and perfect Engineer s". RMA Woolwich was commonly known as "The Shop" because its first building was a converted workshop of the Woolwich Arsenal .

Notable teachers at Woolwich included Frederick Augustus Abel , Peter Barlow , Samuel Hunter Christie and Paul Sandby .

A second academy, known as the Royal Military College (RMC), was opened at Sandhurst , Berkshire in 1799 to train officers for the Infantry and Cavalry .

Both were closed at the start of the Second World War in 1939 . The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst opened in 1947 as an amalgamation of both institutions.

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