The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (commonly known as Sandhurst) is the British Armyofficer training centre. The academy is prestigious and has had many famous alumni including Sir Winston Churchill. The academy lies within the Bracknell Forest district in the former county of Berkshire, but the nearest town is Camberley in Surrey.
All British Army officers, and many from elsewhere in the world, are trained at Sandhurst.
The commissioning course, lasting 44 weeks, must be passed by most British regular army officers before they receive their commission. It is usually preceded by the Regular Commissioning Board and followed by a further training course specific to the Corps the officer will serve in. Shorter commissioning courses are run for "professionally qualified officers" (eg, doctors, dentists, chaplains) and Territorial Army officers.
Sandhurst also runs a variety of courses for officers, and has strong academic departments.
The RoyalMilitary Academy Sandhurst (commonly known as Sandhurst) is the British Army officer initial training centre.
Sandhurst also runs a variety of courses for officers, and has a reknowned department of war studies, staffed mainly by civilian academics.
RMA Sandhurst was formed in 1947, from the RoyalMilitary Academy in Woolwich (which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939) and the RoyalMilitaryCollege at Sandhurst.
The RoyalMilitary Academy at Woolwich was established in 1741 to educate the military branch of the Board of Ordnance to produce officers for the Artillery and Engineers.
The RoyalMilitary Academy at Sandhurst was reopened in 1947.
In 1907 entrance to the RoyalMilitaryCollege, Sandhurst, was by competitive examination.
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