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 Noel Pemberton Billing offered Archer-Shee a duel by boxing in public for charity; Archer-Shee declined. At the 1918 general election Archer-Shee was elected MP for the new constituency of Finsbury, parliamentary boundaries having been altered by the Representation of the People Act 1918. He held the seat at the 1922 general election, and was knighted in 1923. He was defeated in 1923 by his Labour Party opponent, George Masterman Gillett. He attempted to re-enter parliament in the following year, but failed to be elected at Peckham. This was to be his last electoral contest: although his name was proposed when