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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 966

(x) Royal Military Asylum Good Conduct Medal (A. W. Fenwick), silver, with silver buckle to ribbon, good very fine

The Royal Military Asylum was founded in 1801 by Frederick, Duke of York. It was founded in the midst of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars to house the orphan or destitute children of fallen soldiers. Modelled on the Royal Hibernian Military School, the Asylum at Chelsea received its Royal Charter in 1801 and took in the first children in 1803. Initially admitting boys and girls, it was ahead of its time in providing an education for working class children. By the 1850's, it had instigated a program of training preparing students for service as Sergeant Schoolmasters in the Army. In 1892 the Royal Military Asylum was renamed the Duke of York's Royal Military School and in 1909 the school moved to new premises on the Downs of Dover.

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