Osborne Stable Block — described his five years at Osborne as horrendous. The case of George Archer-Shee from 1908, who was expelled from Osborne after being falsely accused of stealing a 5-shilling postal order, inspired the play "The Winslow Boy". In 1927 the Red Cross voluntary aid detachment nurses from all over the United Kingdom were allowed to use the old naval college buildings for their summer training camp. In 1934 the camps stopped as the former naval college dormitory blocks were being demolished. In 1942 the Stable Block was commandeered by the Government for the war effort to provide a Head Office
Naval Cadet Corps (Russia) Naval Corps - St. Petersburg Naval Institute. Naval Cadet Corps (Russia) The Naval Cadet Corps (), occasionally translated as the Marine Cadet Corps or the Sea Cadet Corps, is an educational establishment for educating Naval officers for commissioning in the Russian Navy in Saint Petersburg. It is the oldest existing institution of higher learning in Russia. The first maritime educational school was established by Peter the Great in Moscow as the "School of Navigation and Mathematical Sciences" in 1701. The school was moved to St Petersburg in 1713 as the" Naval Guard Academy". The school was renamed the "Naval Cadet