Showing posts with label archival cadets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label archival cadets. Show all posts

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Archival Cadets Revisited


Military service runs in my family. My father was a colonel in the Army and my sister attended the Air Force Academy. I toyed with the idea of attending a service academy but doubted my ability to survive past the day they outfit you with your uniform. I might have reconsidered military school if I could have enrolled in the Life Photo Archive version of Sandhurst military academy. I love the bookish style and striped blazers of the Sandhurst cadets. And who wouldn’t want to spend their school days playing chess, pedaling bicycles in formation or jumping motorcycles by horseback?









Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Archival Cadets I

From the archives of the Illustrated London News

Cadets at Sandhurst bicycling to "Physical Jerks"

Sword drill at the R.M.C.

Gentleman cadets taking a boxing lesson

Ensuring that the future officer has a tough physique

Getting ready for parade at the R.M.C.


In the Seasmanship room at the Royal Naval College, Darthmouth:

Cadets learning the use of all deck-fittings in modern warships

Archival Cadets Revisited


Military service runs in my family. My father was a colonel in the Army and my sister attended the Air Force Academy. I toyed with the idea of attending a service academy but doubted my ability to survive past the day they outfit you with your uniform. I might have reconsidered military school if I could have enrolled in the Life Photo Archive version of Sandhurst military academy. I love the bookish style and striped blazers of the Sandhurst cadets. And who wouldn’t want to spend their school days playing chess, pedaling bicycles in formation or jumping motorcycles by horseback?