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
Martin Archer-Shee on 15 August 1902, and received the rank of brevet major a week later. He resigned from the army in 1905. In the same year he married Frances Pell, and the couple had seven children. At the January 1910 general election he was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Finsbury Central, winning the seat for the Conservatives and unseating the Liberal-Labour MP, W C Steadman. In parliament he was an advocate of Tariff Reform and argued for the case for an enlargement of the navy. His half-brother was George Archer-Shee, whose expulsion from