Royal Naval College, Osborne simple grammatical questions. A boy who passed the entrance examination was then appointed as a cadet, the appointment reading "To HMS "Racer" for the Royal Naval College, Osborne." Boys at the college wore naval uniform and generally stayed for two years of initial training, divided into six terms, then from about the age of fifteen they continued their studies at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. HMS "Racer", a ship dating from 1884, was given to the college at Osborne as a tender. All cadets were educated in mathematics, foreign languages, natural sciences, sailing, navigation, seamanship, and naval history, the science
Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry Devon Yeomanry and simultaneously transferred to the Royal Artillery to form 11th (Devon) Army Brigade, RFA. The Royal Devon Yeomanry Museum is incorporated in the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon in The Square, Barnstaple. The Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry was awarded the following battle honours (honours in bold are emblazoned on the regimental colours): Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry The Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army. First raised in 1794, it participated in the Second Boer War and the First World War before being amalgamated with the Royal North Devon Yeomanry in 1920 to