Grand old SCHOOL
The Duke of York’s Royal Military School is a distinguished independent boarding school for the eleven to eighteen year old sons and daughters of Royal Navy, Royal Marine, Army and RAF serving personnel.
Looking after the extensive facilities, to strict guidelines, is the PriDE Site Delivery Manager, David Walker
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n 1801, His Royal Highness Frederick Duke of York laid the foundation stone in Chelsea of what was to become the Duke of York’s Royal Military School. Originally, it was an orphanage for children of soldiers killed in battle and was Britain’s first state funded and state administered school. The first boys entered the school in 1803 and, in 1909, it moved to its present location in Dover. In 1992 it became coeducationalThe museum on site tells part of the school’s rich history, and records have been kept on every pupil who ever attended the school. Since 1945 the school has developed into a respected coeducational boarding establishment for all service children. Many of the school buildings are listed and the whole facility has to be managed under a strict code of
maintenance guidelines. In fact, the procedures have changed very little since 1909. The school stands in 150
acres of attractive parkland, two kilometres north of Dover. Both the grounds and buildings are managed by David Walker, Site Delivery Manager for Interserve Defence Ltd which is part of the PriDE consortia contracted to Defence Estates, who are a client agent acting on behalf of the school. Interserve, a building, services and maintenance provider, and FTSE top 250 quoted, has an annual revenue of £1.7 billion and a workforce of 50,000 people worldwide. PriDE has held the school contract for a number of years and, in that time, have managed to retain many of the original MOD gardening and grounds staff who have worked at the school for a long time.
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